Pierre Gasly: We were too slow.

      In the final laps Alpine asked the drivers to hold position and not fight so that there would be enough fuel to make it to the finish, but Franco Colapinto attacked and overtook Pierre Gasly, which the team did not like…

      Pierre Gasly (19th): "A bad day. In Austin the car was working inefficiently; in the race we were too slow. At the start I was following Lawson in a group of several cars, it seemed everything was going well, but then there was a delay at the pit stop, and from that moment everything went wrong. We need to analyze everything and understand why on Sundays we are uncompetitive. We are working on it and will continue fighting next weekend in Mexico."

      Franco Colapinto (17th): "A tough day and a tough weekend for the team. I didn't avoid mistakes, and there were problems with the car, but we keep working and always try to achieve more. At the end of the race I had slightly fresher tyres than Pierre, Bortoleto attacked — I wanted to keep him behind and got into the fight. We'll discuss it within the team and draw conclusions."

      Steve Nielsen, team principal: "Our pace doesn't allow us to consistently score points, but we did make a small step forward. Like many other teams, we adapted our strategy to the conditions. In Pierre's case we wanted to avoid an undercut by switching early to softer tyres, but there was a delay, the causes of which we will investigate. Franco was able to extend his stint on the Mediums to catch up with Pierre by the end of the race. We asked the drivers to hold position because we were managing the fuel consumption of both cars given the remaining laps. We believe any instruction from the pit wall is mandatory, and today we are disappointed that this did not happen. We will resolve this internally."