Vandoorne: "Something went wrong during the pit stop"

Another day to forget for Stoffel Vandoorne, as the Belgian didn't get close to a points-finish again, even though this time everything involving pit stops went wrong.

Both the pit strategy and the actual pit stop were bad, Vandoorne explained to Ziggo Sport.

"The race was very difficult for us," he said.

"In the first stint, it was very important for us to go longer than the rest.

"The problem, however, was that we were slower and therefore we only lost places.

It looked like Vandoorne was being used as a shield to let Fernando Alonso get away from Max Verstappen at some in the race.

"We had too much degradation and the pit stop came much too late.

"During the stop something went wrong too, but we'll have to analyze that.

"The lights went green, but something didn't go to plan."

Vandoorne saw his teammate Alonso retire from the race with gearbox issues, but the Belgian remains the only driver on the grid who hasn't out-qualified his teammate yet.