Lance Stroll says the pace he and team-mate Sergio Perez showed in the Styrian Grand Prix puts Racing Point ahead of its midfield riv꧑als in the Formula 1 pecking order.

After 🔯a disappointing qualifying performance in the wet, both Racing Points showed impressive race pa෴ce to come through the field to finish sixth and seventh after starting from outside of the top ten.

It wasn’t a perfect race for the Silverstone-based outfit with Pere♍z dropping a place on the final lap - handing McLaren's Lando Norris fifth - after light contact with Alexander Albon resulted in a broken front wing.

While Racing Point didn’t maximise its pace, Stroll believes the team 𒆙is potentially on a par with Red Bull, or at least, ahead of its main midfield competitors.

“I really believe today we debatably had the second quickest ⭕car, may🐭be the third,’’ Stroll said.

“We were definitely quicker than Renault, McLaren and a lotꦡ of our other competitors so that was really positive. It wasn’t the perfect 🎉race I think for both of us. I mean for Sergio starting 17th, that was a pretty good result - you’d probably have signed up for that before the race.

“From my side, there were definitely some frustrating parts to the race - getting stuck behind Ricciardo. The pace was there al🔯l race which is what is promising moving forwa🍌rd.’’

After a series of impressive fastest laps, Perez was able to challenge Al🌃bon for fourth place.

The Mexican admits he was ''very lucky'' to have only los🍷t just one place after damaging his front wing.

“It was good to recover,'' Perez added. “We were all the way to P5, nearly P4 in the end. I was pushing really hard on Albon and I didn’t have any opportunity oꦰther than the൩ one that I took and unfortunately I touched at the wrong angle.

“Basically, I understand a bit towards ⛦the exit - I am opening up the steering wheel while picking up the power then I𒐪 broke the whole front wing. I was very lucky to lose just one position from that.''

Racing Point is currently under investigation after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Renault launched a protest regarding the legality of its 2020 car, dubbed𓃲 by many rivals as the 'Pink Mercedes' due to its simila🅰rities to Mercedes' 2019 title-winning W10.