"It’s unbelievable!" the winner admitted, "People get different emotions from winning, but it’s just such a relief that I can still do it and, given the right team and the right opportunity, I know I can run as hard as any of them and race with the best. Hopefully, now we can be consistent and prove that we are as good as the guys who have won this championship and, hopefully, we’ll get the shot at
Formula One."
Maldonado was clearly relieved to have secured second, in the process doing something to lessen the belief that he is something of a Monaco specialist.
"It’s my second podium, but I think we can fight for all the season," he insisted, "We need to work, we need to improve a little bit more and improve the car to be on the top in all the races, but we are working and its better to be on the top again."
Nakajima, meanwhile, was delighted to have taken two podium finishes for DAMS, which only had one car to run in the sprint race after Nicolas Lapierre's hefty accident on Saturday afternoon.
"It’s a really, really good weekend - a great weekend," the Japanese driver admitted, "I think this is our potential. We had some sign from the beginning of the season, but we couldn’t make it as a result. Now we could do that and I’m really happy."
di Grassi managed to resist Conway's advances for fourth, while Zuber rounded out the scorers as everyone homed in the luckless Glock.
