SERGIO PEREZMP4-28A-02Started                   12thFinished                 11thFastest lap             1m37.913s (+0.952s, 7th)Pitstops                 Three: laps 10 (2.76s), 20 (2.69s) and 39 (2.92s) [Opt-Pri-Pri-Pri]Points                     10 (11th)That was an incredible racereally enjoyable.I have to thank the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team first of allweve been through some difficult times recently, but they kept on supporting me. All in all, its been a solid weekendwe got pretty much the maximum from the car, ran a great strategy, looked after the tyres, and scored some very useful points.I guess I was a little aggressive on track today; banging wheels with Jenson was perhaps a little too risky, a little too hard, but the team never came on the radio to tell us to stop racing. There were no team orders.There was a lot of adrenaline from both of us, and Jenson is always a very strong racer, but hopefully well help each other a little more in the future.He was calm and friendly after the race, though, which was great; but that isnt surprising because hes a great guy as well as a great driver.JENSON BUTTONMP4-28A-03Started                   10thFinished                 10th

Fastest lap             1m37.743s (+0.782s, 5th)Pitstops                 Four: laps 9 (4.43s), 21 (3.46s), 34 (3.04s) and 46 (2.81s) [Opt-Pri-Pri-Pri-Opt]Points                     13 (10th)Today wasnt brilliant for me. Okay, the race was a lot of fun, but I didnt get the result I wanted because I used up my tyres fending off Checo.

There was a lot of action out there, and as I say I wasnt really able to conserve my tyres as a result. That was partly because I had to work my way back through after my second pitstop, when Id been fighting with Romain [Grosjean].But there was a lot of clean racing out there tooalthough as I say Checo was a bit tough, which was a little unusual. He did a good job overall though: he had good pace, and he looked after his tyres well. So, congratulations to him, because together we scored some very useful points for the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team today.MARTIN WHITMARSH

Team principal, Vodafone McLaren MercedesThe 2013 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix was a fantastic motor race, and Im sure it was hugely entertaining for the tens of millions of viewers who watched it at home as well as for those lucky enough to be here at Sakhir to see it for real.Checo drove his best race for Vodafone McLaren Mercedes so far, passing both Fernando [Alonso] and Mark [Webber] in the closing stages, to finish a fighting sixth at the flag.It was a very good drive, especially when you consider that he was able to maintain such strong race pace despite having sustained damage to his rear wing and one of his front-wing endplates.Jenson would have finished right up there, too, had he not had to make an extra tyre stop with just 10 laps to go. Nonetheless, he, too, finished in a solid points-scoring position.The two of them spent much of the afternoon in close proximity to each othersometimes in nail-bitingly close proximity actuallybut thats motor racing. Both Jenson and Checo are fast, forceful and hungry for successand thats exactly how it should be. Its called racing, and we at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes always allow our drivers to race. Its what this sport is all about. Having said that, its probably fair to say that Checo was a little too combative with Jenson this afternoon, and I think he knows that.From here we travel back to Woking [Surrey, UK], where well work hard on our upgrade package for Spain, where in three weeks time we hope to continue the process of demonstrating the fruits of our steady development of MP4-28 into the competitive machine we need it to be.