He remains optimistic about the race, having come back from 17th on the grid to third at Interlagos in 2009. McLaren’s Stoffel Vandoorne was in 13th and Brendon Hartley in the Toro Rosso in 15th. Pierre Gasly’s Toro Rosso finished in 17th with the Williams of Lance Stroll in 18th. The Renault managing director, Cyril Abiteboul, had suggested on Friday that the fault lay with the way Toro Rosso was operating the engine. However on Saturday morning Toro Rosso issued a strongly worded statement denying that was the case, subsequently publicly reinforced by the team principal, Franz Tost.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 13:02 UTC