Sebastian Vettel held on to victory through chaos and safety car periods, but he wasn't the fastest car out on track by quite a margin. Red Bull actually topped the timesheets in terms of fastest laps, with Daniel Ricciardo taking top honours. Mercedes were close behind, of course, proving that even though they had a rough day and couldn't piece together a desired result, they still have more pace then many of the other cars put together.

The gap between teammates was small in some places, and larger in others - Toro Rosso's Max Verstappen was over a second quicker than Sainz on his best lap, whilst McLaren had a similar gap between Alonso and Button.