Hyundai protested the penalty, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
Nevertheless, Fourmaux was proud of his performance in Saudi Arabia.
“Yeah, for sure. If you remove this thing, I’m really, really pleased with how we managed the race,” he said. “We took the decision to take soft at the beginning, against the others, and we made the right choice for that. And then after that, we were leading, they were catching us, we were losing the lead, and then the next day we were getting back the lead, and it’s been like that all weekend.
“So we were really managing the pressure, because when you see them coming back, you’re like, ‘Ah, they’re going to catch us, etc’. But we really managed it. So I’m really pleased how we did it and how I did it to get the self-control inside the car because in some places it’s really easy to go mad. So, yeah, positive anyway.”