Although Racing Point now has more funds than in previous years, team principal Otmar Szafnauer has warned new owner Lawrence Stroll that success will take time.

Stroll, leading a consortium, purchased the Force India team midway through the 2018 season.

He renamed it Racing Point and stuck his son, Lance Stroll, in the car for 2019, teaming him up with the experienced Sergio Perez.

Together the two scored 73 points thanks largely to Perez’s run of six successive top-ten results in the final part of the championship.

However, the team’s P7 in the Constructors’ Championship was the outfit’s worst performance in seven years, not including 2018 when, despite competing in nine races, they were also seventh.