Scott Mitchell-Malm
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And this wasn't what McLaren was able to do.
So that basically triggered disappointing qualifying performance there.
Could still have got very much up near the front in the race, Oscar in particular.
But the other big issue for McLaren is obviously reliability.
Lando stopped on Friday, replaced the battery, had another problem today.
So they still haven't totally got on top of the mechanical problems they've been suffering from.
Yeah, it didn't work out primarily because Alex was suffering deployment issues.
So he didn't have as much power as he hoped to have.
So he was battling these problems.
This then opened the door for Lindblad to get past him at one point.
He basically couldn't have him off.
And it stopped being able to build a gap.
It put him on the back foot totally.
So then by the time the pair then came around to the red flag restart, when Russell then started backing them up, unfortunately, they were in slightly the wrong place.
The car that didn't have deployment issues was hit by Niko HΓΌlkenberg, Carlos Sainz, and then tapped for good by Franco Colapinto.
And then Albon, you know, unable to do very much because these deployment issues didn't go away, but he was still able to get it home for some points.
So...
Well, you say that, but then, I mean, this was before Fernando knew he had got the point.
But I think he was quite aware of where they were and the potential for getting the point.
But he was asked, you know, what positives do you take from this weekend?