"The Durango squad have had a difficult last couple years, but they worked so hard this weekend and I really have to thank them all, especially my race engineer Nick Wasyliw, with whom I have formed a really fantastic working relationship this year.”
With Indian businessman Vijay Mallya poised to take control at the ailing Spyker
F1 team in the next few days, Chandhok admits that the win could not have come at a more important time.
"The win has come at a
perfect time," he acknowledged, "This is the last race we do with the F1 teams and they will leave for Japan with the memory that I won the last race they saw this year.
"All weekend, my dad and I have been under a lot of pressure from all sides about next season, and there's a lot of speculation about our plans, so this win has been ideal.
"After the race, Bruno Michel, the boss of GP2, said I was ‘crazy' for the overtaking move and he introduced me to
Fernando Alonso, who also complimented me on the move. It was really amazing to go through the F1 paddock after the podium and have people like Bernie, Dietrich Mateschitz, Tadashi Yamashina, Dr Helmut Marko and Christian Horner, who run
Red Bull Racing, Colin Kolles and Adam Parr, among others, congratulate me.
"Vijay Mallya had already left missed calls and SMS on my 'phone by the time I got back to the pits!”
