“We wanted to continue down this winning path which started as a reaction to the heavy hit we took in Melbourne and we have managed it. We hope this is a nice wedding present for Clementina, the daughter of our President, Luca di Montezemolo!
“These 16 points are the result of the work from the whole team at all levels and that is why we chose Francesco Uguzzoni, the head mechanic, to go on the podium and pick up the winning team trophy.
“Now we have to prepare maybe even more carefully for the next rounds. At Monaco and Canada last year, we suffered a lot and we will have to do our best in preparing for these races, both in the test session at Paul Ricard from next Wednesday to Friday, and in analysing the data back in Maranello.”
Luca Baldisserri [Ferrari – technical director]:
“All-in-all, a really good result. We had the potential to get a one-two, but after what happened at the start, we could have ended up with one car outside the points. The choice of when to use which tyre was based on data gathered in free practice and on past experience at this track, as well as a logical prediction of how the track surface would evolve. With hindsight, it is easy to say that we could have gone for a different choice.
“The team worked well and the cars ran trouble-free, which included, amongst other things, successfully completing the usage cycle of four races for the gearbox; for this and for their usual technical contribution I would like to thank Shell especially.
“Now we can expect two tricky races, where last year we were not competitive enough to win. We have worked a lot to remedy the problems which we had there, and now we will find out if we have worked in the right direction.”
Ron Dennis [McLaren – team principal]:
“Today we saw a truly phenomenal drive from Lewis, in which he optimised a three-stop strategy that we were forced to adopt as a consequence of concerns we had with his tyres. As a result of the eight points that his second-placed finish netted him, he closed the gap on Kimi in the world drivers' championship to just seven points.
