“Then in the last stint the grip with the hard tyres wasn’t great. I was pushing, but I was at the limit with the grip. I enjoyed the battle with Heidfeld – he was quicker than me but I managed to keep him behind for many laps. [It was] better than yesterday definitely, but we still need to work a lot and find something more.”
Timo Glock:
“The start didn’t go well and on the way down to the first corner I lost two or three positions. Then a car crossed in front of me and damaged my front wing. That heavily affected the first stint, as I lost some aero performance and it meant we had the whole race in traffic.
“The car felt much better after we changed the nose at the pit-stop, but later on Coulthard came out in front of me and he was slow on his out-lap. He left me a bit of space and then closed it and I crashed into him. It destroyed my front wing again and that was it.”
David Coulthard:
“It’s a horrible thing about being down near the end of the grid – you try to keep out of trouble, but it’s never so easy. I got whacked by Sutil going into turn four and picked up some light damage to the side of the car, but after that I was running ok. After my pit-stop, I took a defensive line into turns four and five to show Glock that I knew he was there, but he hit the rear of my car and punctured a tyre.”
Takuma Sato:
“It was a hard race, but I enjoyed it. The start was reasonably good and I overtook a few cars. Ahead of me a few cars had a coming-together and I could not avoid them and lost part of the nose, which then obviously affected my aero balance. The team said the car looked ok, so we just fought our way through the rest of the race.
“At one stage we were up in the middle, running as high as ninth, and that was a fantastic feeling. The boys did a great job under difficult circumstances this weekend. I am very happy for them and all the people who are supporting us, and I just hope that we can keep this momentum going.”
Nico Rosberg:
“In the end, this result is a combination of two things. We brought a new aero package to this race and we went the wrong way with it when it came to set-up in practice. We were able to change this for the race and went much more towards Kazuki’s setting, which worked a lot better as I was able to push harder and I was much happier with that.
