Car 2 MARK WEBBER, Finish Position: WINNER! Start Position: 2nd
“It’s
taking a while to sink in this one. I think it was the circumstances of
the race – for most of it I was marking off second place. Fernando was
not quite out of touch and after the last stop, my engineer Ciaron came
on the radio saying that Fernando was not doing much on the option
tyres. But I know Fernando is a wily old fox, I thought he was looking
after the tyres and just waiting to pull the pin and go a little bit.
But when I got within two seconds I thought maybe he’s in a little bit
of trouble and it was real. It was completely game on when I knew the
DRS was available, I made the move stick and our hard work paid off for
the win. It was a cracking grand prix today; the spectators got to see a
good race and I’m pleased for them.”
Car 1 SEBASTIAN VETTEL, Finish Position: 3rd, Start Position: 4th
“It
was a tough day today. The start was not so good. I lost a little bit
and then got stuck behind Michael, but had a good strategy to come back.
We decided to pit early and we came out ahead, so that was a good call.
I would be a bit happier if we had won today, but it was a great result
for the team, I am happy. We’re just down the road, so it’s our local
race. It’s good it didn’t rain, I saw some clouds coming and it might
have helped my race, but I was very happy for the people in the
grandstands. I think they appreciated it staying dry. It’s been a tough
weekend for them with rain, a lot of traffic and not so much driving
from our side due to too much water – but I think we made up for that
today.”
CHRISTIAN HORNER, Team Principal:
“An
unbelievable day for the team. Starting the race, our strategy was
slightly different to Ferrari with Fernando opting to start with the
harder tyre, but we knew we could make our strategy work if we stuck to
our plan. That was made slightly complicated by Felipe getting ahead of
Sebastian at the start but then we were aggressive with the first stop
and got Seb into clear air, which elevated him up the order. We then
pushed as far as we could go on the option tyre with Mark, knowing that
our time would come later in the race. After very strong middle stints
from both drivers, we knew going into that final stint that we had a
great chance and Mark started to catch Fernando, sometimes as much as a
second per lap. He then made a fantastic manouvre around the outside
which got him into the lead with four laps to go and he closed it out in
style. Sebastian unfortunately ran out of laps. He was catching
Fernando very quickly, but to have both driers up on the podium just up
the road from the factory with so many members of the team here is
great. We also had 25,000 pictures on each car supporting Wings for Life
this weekend, which has raised a million Euros for the charity. So,
after a tough start to the weekend, the sun finally shone for the fans
and the team and it was a fantastic team result.”
CYRIL DUMONT, Renault:
“It was a close to perfect
weekend. I’m pleased for Red Bull to win this race. Mark did a perfect
race, I think he never stopped pushing. Seb almost got the one two
today, but we got a double podium. Engine wise I’m pretty pleased that
we didn’t suffer any of the issues we saw in Valencia and everything was
under control today.”
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