Listen to this article From 13th on the grid he jumped up to ninth on the first lap, later gaining a spot when Fernando Alonso retired. He moved up another place when he jumped Kevin Magnussen in the pits after being among the first to switch to slicks, leaving him in seventh for much of the race. He gained another position when Charles Leclerc spun, but lost out to Yuki Tsunoda and the recovering Leclerc. The German’s eighth place and 10th for teammate Lance Stroll represent Aston Martin’s first points of its troubled 2022 season. “It’s like a victory,” he said. “We have to be honest, we are not the fastest at the minute. I think we are pretty much at the other side of the field. But today we did really well, the weekend helped us with the conditions, but we managed to capitalise. “I think we did a great job on calling for the dry tyres, and everybody else then I think copied what we did. So I was happy to go even a lap before or two. So yeah, it was really, really good. “And obviously, no chance to hold Charles off in the end, he’s like four seconds faster, three secon …

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