Stroll "couldn't be happier" with Racing Point's Baku effort

Racing Point are happy with how they have performed so far this season after they have taken over from Force India. They are currently 5th in the constructors championship, only one point behind McLaren who are in 4th. Sergio Perez finished 'best of the rest' in Baku and the team will hope that they can build on this momentum.  

“I couldn’t be happier,” Stroll Sr told Motorsport.com. “I think we finished where we deserved to finish, on merit.

"We know that there are six cars that are in a different league. So we couldn’t have asked for more.”

Team principal Otmar Szafnauer is also pleased with the way things have gone. 

“If look at what happened ahead of us I think we extracted the most we could have from our starting position,” he said. 

“The quicker cars finished ahead of us, Sergio was sixth, Lance did a great job to get into the points from 13th, so it was very good. We got everything right today.

“I think in the last few races, from seventh to 18th in qualifying was like three-tenths of a second, so it’s really hard to know where in that you’ll fall. It is what it is, and it means we’ve got to fight more in the midfield.

“We still have to improve the car, which hopefully we’ll do in Barcelona, and then see how we go for the rest of the year. It’s a huge development race this year.”

Racing Point will hope that they can continue their midfield battle and look to battle McLaren for 4th.