Sirotkin: No points an ‘unfair’ reflection of my performances

Sergey Sirotkin feels being the only driver on the 2018 Formula 1 grid yet to score a point does not represent a fair reflection of his performances this season. 

The Russian has endured a tough rookie season amid Williams’ ongoing troubles and is the only driver without a points finish to his name this season, with teammate Lance Stroll picking up the team’s only top 10 result of the year during a crazy Azerbaijan Grand Prix. 

Sirotkin has suffered a spate of unfortunate incidents including a loose sandwich bag that caused him to retire early from the season-opener in Australia, before a seat issue thwarted his race in Spain and he was taken out in Baku. 

“It is unfair and fair at the same time because realistically we are not able to score the points based on performance. Even in certain occasions when we get lucky and so on it’s still not enough,” Sirotkin told Crash.net. 

“To score a point nowadays, we need to have a very extraordinary situation, which we have to be sure we are using the maximum from it and then we can score a point. So I think it is a little bit unfair because it’s not that much more I can do from a driving side to improve.”

While Sirotkin acknowledged his results do not look good on paper, he remains confident he is doing a good enough job to impress Williams, despite finding it “quite impossible” to make a good impression in his current situation. 

“But at the same time it still doesn’t look good without points, I am quite sure the people who I want to know [I’m performing], they know,” he explained. “I feel quite confident about that but again, there are many other things which don’t feel great not having the points.

“So I am not too worried about it but I do believe there are some situations where you know that you have done the perfect job. But very often I am not able to say this because I know on the outside it didn’t look like it. 

“You don’t want to say you did the perfect job because there’s not much people that know this. So it’s not going to make a good impression. So in this case it’s quite impossible to impress. It’s quite impossible to do anything but again I know that the key people in the team, they all know it and are aware so this is most important for us.”