Sebastian Vettel “It was a great result today – especially after I gave the team so much work on Friday. I hope giving a victory back goes some way to help them forget it. Saturday morning was crucial. When I walked into the garage everyone gave me the impression that nothing is wrong and there was nothing to worry about. The whole team was working so hard to get the car back together and times like these are important. The team are close to me and if they are not happy or unmotivated it reflects on me and the other way round, so after being a bit down on Friday, it picked me back up. In the race we had a very good first stint and got a gap and you can always benefit from that cushion. At the end I did two short stints, which was the right thing to do - it was seamless today. We don’t know what happens next, so we have to take it race by race. There will be days when we are beaten for definite, but we need to minimise the loss - but for today, it was a great result for the team.”
Mark Webber“It was good to get second place - and a relief to finish there and not third. In the end it was a good fight with Fernando, you lose a bit of time when you’re into each other like that, but it turned out okay and I got him back in the end. For the first stop, the team pitted me earlier than expected as they were worried about the undercuts coming into play. Ferrari saw the same thing and it was really a race between us two from then onwards. At that point, you make your bet that you will be having a few stops during the day. It was a good victory for Sebastian and Fernando drove well too - it was a great result for the team with a one two. The grip wasn’t great at the start, but I will leave Istanbul happy - it was my best result of the year so far.”
Christian Horner, Red Bull team principal“A fantastic team performance today. It was a very busy race with a four-stop strategy, perfect pit work and a great performance by Sebastian to take what was, in the end, a dominant win. Mark had a bit more on, dropping a place on the dirty side of the grid at the start, but then his recovery was excellent. He worked the tyres really hard to get past Nico Rosberg and then came under pressure from Alonso, dropped a place to him, but kept calm. We had a new set of primes for the last stint and Mark really made them work, resulting in a great passing move to achieve our first one-two of the year. All compliments to the team, it certainly exorcises the demons from last year and I would like to thank all our partners for their fantastic support.”
1 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 58 1:30:17.558 1 25 2 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 58 +8.8 secs 2 18 3 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 58 +10.0 secs 5 15 4 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 58 +40.2 secs 4 12 5 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 58 +47.5 secs 3 10 6 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 58 +59.4 secs 6 8 7 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 58 +60.8 secs 9 6 8 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 58 +68.1 secs 7 4 9 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 58 +69.3 secs 16 2 10 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 58 +78.0 secs 24 1 11 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 58 +79.8 secs 10 12 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 58 +85.4 secs 8 13 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 57 +1 Lap 12 14 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 57 +1 Lap 15 15 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 57 +1 Lap 11 16 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 57 +1 Lap 17 17 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 57 +1 Lap 14 18 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 57 +1 Lap 19 19 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 56 +2 Laps 18 20 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 56 +2 Laps 23 21 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 55 +3 Laps 22 22 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 53 +5 Laps 20
Ret 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 44 Retired 13 DNS 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 0 Gearbox 21
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