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Christian Horner has said that Red Bull did all they could in their quest to defeat Nico Rosberg in Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.
Daniel Ricciardo came within half a second of winning the race, but his tyres had gone off by the time he was able to mount a real challenge for the win.
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"Nico had a very strong weekend, he had a bit too much for us in qualifying, and in the race we tried everything we could," said Horner.
"I think the intention was for Nico to cover us, but we thwarted that at the last minute because Daniel's out-lap was so stonkingly strong - together with a fast pitstop. We were within the undercut."
"Having run the maths quickly, it looked like we'd catch him within a lap or two of the end," he continued. "But having hit his tyres pretty hard at the beginning of the stint, they then started to run out of steam a little bit towards the end of the stint."
"Whilst Daniel did a fantastic job to close Nico down over the last laps, they had just left enough in hand to keep a margin until the chequered flag."
"To get within half a second in two hours [the elapsed race time] was a great performance, but it just wasn't quite enough."
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