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| Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button |
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| Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton |
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| Kamui Kobayashi, Bruno Senna |
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| Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa |
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| Kimi Räikkönen, Mark Webber |
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| Romain Grosjean, Lewis Hamilton |
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| Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen |
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| Kimi Räikkönen, Sebastian Vettel, Romain Grosjean, Christian Horner |
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| Christian Horner, Sebastian Vettel |
Note - Maldonado qualified 17th, Schumacher 18th. Both dropped five grid places as penalty for an unscheduled gearbox changes.
Sebastian Vettel - GER
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| Sebastian Vettel |
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| Sebastian Vettel |
I think it was an incredible race. Extremely tough. Sometimes we had a
decent gap but still even from the start we had a very good start, which
was crucial. I was able to pull away immediately and pull away from the
pack. That turned out to be a big advantage because we always had to go
on a used set of tyres as we used nearly all of them yesterday in
qualifying. We could see, Kimi was getting through, he was very quick
and so was Romain. A difficult race but with the strategy everything
seemed to work so I can only say a big thanks to the boys in the garage.
I said it yesterday: incredible job they’ve done over the first four
races. The amount of work they had and that we gave them in particular
because we weren’t happy with the car and we asked for little tweaks
here and there and they came back with new parts, old parts, back with
the new parts, back with the old parts, back and forth, so extremely
tough and they spent a lot of hours in the garage trying to get the car
to our liking and I think we got it this weekend together for the first
time and I was very happy in qualifying and throughout the whole race to
be fair. So given the fact that Kimi found a dealership somewhere where
he got some new tyres from, which allowed him to start every new stint
on new tyres, it was extremely tough to keep them behind us. Once he was
very close and I thought he would get more than just one shot but it
turned out to be enough and in the end I was even pulling away a little
bit and I could control the last stint. All in all, very happy and very
proud of the team.
Kimi Räikkönen - FIN
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| Kimi Räikkönen |
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| Kimi Räikkönen |
I think we gave ourselves a chance at least. It’s a bit
disappointing that I didn’t manage to do it. But I made a small mistake
at the beginning and lost one place to Ferrari. I had to re-overtake him
and it took a little time. I got past the people quite easily but if
you look in the end I think we still took too long and we couldn’t win
the race. But at least we got the podium with both cars. After the last
race we tried hard and failed and probably people thought we were a bit
stupid. Even after yesterday what we did. But it turned out to be the
right decision and I think the team deserves what we have achieved now.
We have been working hard. We’ve not been 100 per cent happy with how
the weekends have run so far but finally we’ve got some proper results
for the team, so it’s an important step.
My car was the same the whole weekend. We tried two cars with different
floors but I mean in the end I don’t think there’s much difference
between them but for sure it looks like we did the right thing. The car
cannot be too bad because we finished second and third, we’re still not
happy in certain areas but that’s a pretty normal thing. You’re never
really 100 per cent happy with things. You always try to find something
new and improved. But, I mean, great thing for the team to finish second
and third, so I’m happy for them but a bit disappointed to not have
more, to not be able to challenge more for the win. I’m not winning but
that’s life.
Romain Grosjean - FRA
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| Romain Grosjean |
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| Romain Grosjean |
It’s a strange feeling so far. I think I will be delighted tonight. But
I’m very proud of the team, all we did in the race. We knew we had a
good car but I think we were surprised at the beginning by how quick we
were. And we chose a different strategy to Kimi. It turned out to be not
too bad at the end. Our car is very competitive in what so far has been
a very tight season. Every small detail makes a huge difference, so the
team is working very hard bringing new pieces as well and then putting
back the old and trying to see which one is the best - not always easy
when you have so little running. But I think we can be very happy with
what we did and personally I’m very, very happy to be on my first
podium. It’s quite a good feeling I have to say! I was saying first
points, then top five, then podium but I jumped one step. The next step
will be victory but well, that will take time and now I think we can be
happy and now we can have a week off to enjoy the time and to work a
little bit at the factory and to find the six or seven second gap there
was to Sebastian.
So nice see him in the podium:
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| Kimi Räikkönen |
P.s. Sorry for the really late poste.
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