Gerhard Berger (Toro Rosso - team boss):
"Vettel had a good race but there was nothing much he could do, as most cars ahead of him finished. On the plus side, we got both our cars to the chequered flag. There was nothing more we could do in a race like this. We had Vettel on a short middle stint to keep Heidfeld behind us, but there were no big strategy moves you could make. We were hoping for rain to make something happen and give us a chance."
Ross Brawn (Honda - team principal):
"Rubens got a good start and then did a solid job managing the tyres with a heavy fuel load for the first stint. Unfortunately though, he was trapped behind a slower car, which allowed the cars ahead to pull away. However, with a good strategy and consistent laps, Rubens was able to move through the field and, having started from the back of the grid, he went on to make up five places. While this is by no means a good result, the team and car worked very well throughout the whole race. Jenson's first corner incident with Bourdais damaged the front wing, and as a consequence it became loose and broke off. Despite a nose change, some residual bodywork damage was causing him to lose a great deal of downforce. Given that it was so early in the race it was not sensible to leave a stricken car running so we decided to retire him."
"Next week we are testing at
Silverstone where we will be evaluating a considerable aero upgrade which we plan to introduce for the British Grand Prix in two weeks' time. There will be further developments to this over the coming races then a suspension upgrade for the start of the final long haul races."
Patrick Head (Williams - director of engineering):
"Obviously that was a very mediocre performance. From here, we must go away and try to understand our mistakes and put them right to come out fighting at Silverstone because I am sure that we can do better than we managed today."
Mike Gascoyne (Force India - chief technical officer):
"It's good to get two cars to the finish today. In a race where only one car retired it was obviously going to be difficult but both drivers did a good job in general. Adrian's strategy didn't really work out for him. He needed to make up some places early on, which he wasn't able to do as everyone was so close, so that meant he dropped back down the order at his first stop. Overall though, it's good to get a double finish and to get some reliability. We now move on to Silverstone for the test where we have a large range of improvements to bring the car on."
Dr Vijay Mallya (Force India - chairman and managing director):
"Our goal here was to improve reliability and we can take some confidence that we have achieved this aim, with no problems on either cars. We had a strong strategy to try to make up places, which we needed to do when starting from the back, but sadly we could not capitalise on it with the extraordinary reliability of the field. However with this strong basis in the back of our minds we can now move onto Silverstone for the test next week, where we look forward to some new developments that should hopefully let us make up some time up to the field."
Hirohide Hamashima (Bridgestone - director of motorsport tyre development):
"We are very happy with our tyre performance here today. There were many strategies possible, but I believe the best solution was the medium – medium – soft strategy that we saw most drivers use. Kimi was fastest, but unfortunately for him he had a problem and he had to be patient to take second place. Congratulations to Felipe and
Ferrari for their win and especially to Felipe for taking the championship lead. Congratulations also to
Jarno Trulli and
Toyota for their good result. In Moto GP we must also praise
Casey Stoner and Ducati for their win and
Valentino Rossi and Yamaha for their second place in the
MotoGP race at
Donington Park."
