Lotus team principal Eric Boullier is adamant that the Enstone outfit will never favour one of its drivers over the other, despite pairing a former champion with a rookie. The... read more »

Nico Hülkenberg, 10th: "A lot of hard work went into today's race so it's nice to get the reward of one point. It was a very tough race physically and... read more »

Lewis Hamilton professed himself satisfied with his run to eighth today while Jenson Button was disconsolate with ninth. Having started from the back of the grid, Hamilton was... read more »

HRT completed its home race with the best result of the season as Pedro de la Rosa completed a four stop strategy to finish in 19th place. The sour note of the day was Narain... read more »

Full details of each driver's tyre strategy during the Gran Premio de Espana Santander. read more »

Pedro de la Rosa, 19th: "Racing in front of your home crowd is fantastic and so is finishing the race. I'm very happy because it's the second home Grand Prix of... read more »

DRIVERS: 1 – Pastor MALDONADO (Williams), 2 – Fernando ALONSO (Ferrari), 3 – Kimi RAIKKONEN (Lotus) TV UNILATERAL... read more »

Pirelli’s motorsport director Paul Hembery: “With Pastor Maldonado starting from the front and Lewis Hamilton starting from the back, this was always going... read more »

Lewis Hamilton, 8th: “I’m proud of my performance today, and proud of the team too. They did a great job: a real improvement with the pitstops, following... read more »

Heikki Kovalainen, 16th: "I think we got as much out of the car as we could this afternoon. I had a good start, passed Senna and was hanging on to the pack ahead up until... read more »

Jean-Eric Vergne, 12th: “I had a really good start, moving up as high as tenth in a couple of laps. We decided to pit early to try and get ahead of some more guys and... read more »

Pastor Maldonado was understandably happy after joining a growing list of winners this season, which has matched the record breaking 1983 season in which five different winners... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has bemoaned Lotus' strategy at the Spanish Grand Prix as he believes it cost the team the chance of fighting for victory... read more »

Mercedes managed to get both their drivers into the top ten for the Spanish Grand Prix, and also believe that their strategy-first approach puts them in a strong position for... read more »

Fernando Alonso, 3rd: "This third place is not what we had expected. We were counting on making a step forward that would allow us to get into Q3 with less difficulty than... read more »

Paul Hembery: "Strategy was at the forefront of qualifying today, with a gap of around 0.8 seconds between the hard and the soft tyres, depending on the team.... read more »

We are very flexible on tyre strategy for tomorrow and we'll be spending a lot of time now looking at all the possible permutations. read more »

Michael Schumacher has backed his decision not to complete a timed lap in the third part of qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. read more »

Nico Rosberg, 7th: "That was a tricky Qualifying session this afternoon, and seventh position was about the most that we could have achieved. It was a challenge to find... read more »

We have already shown that we can fight with several cars ahead on Sundays and careful management of the tyres and good pitstop strategy should give us a chance of putting in a... read more »

A tactical battle over tyre strategy in qualifying resulted in pole for Lewis Hamilton ahead of Pastor Maldonado, and shock early exits for Mark Webber and Jenson Button. read more »

Vitaly Petrov, 19th: “I am very happy with today's performance. It feels great to have it all come together in qualifying today and I want to thank the team for... read more »

Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery had defended the tyre manufacturer's 'more aggressive' tyre strategy in 2012, and fended off criticism from... read more »

There is quite a big time difference between the two types of tyre which will make strategy in qualifying tomorrow very interesting, and will put the onus on Sunday on the... read more »

Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber say strategy will be the key factor in the Spanish Grand Prix read more »