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 »

Lewis Hamilton fought back through the field to eighth place in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix. Having qualified on pole before being disqualified last night, the 2008... 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 »

Kimi Räikkönen, 2nd: “I had a very good start and had a chance to overtake on the outside, but we did not have enough speed and I hit the limiter in... read more »

Sebastian Vettel, 6th: “It was difficult race and a hard day in the office. I’m not entirely happy, we could have finished maybe one position higher up, but... read more »

Nico Rosberg fell foul of tyre management issues and also suffered a technical issue during the Spanish Grand Prix that ended up costing him two positions by the end. read more »

Kamui Kobayashi, 5th: “The team did a really great job, and the update on our car works very well. The pace in the race was a big improvement compared to the last... 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 »

Nico Rosberg, 7th: "That was a difficult day for us and a very strange race. We didn't manage to find the right tyre management so I lost two positions towards the... 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 »

Sebastian Vettel remains hopeful that Red Bull Racing did the right thing in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix by deliberately saving tyres read more »

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: Pastor's qualifying performance was stunning today with a collection of very strong laps throughout the session which allowed us to... read more »

DRIVERS: 1 – Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren), 2 – Pastor MALDONADO (Williams), 3 – Fernando ALONSO (Ferrari) TV UNILATERAL... 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 »

There were some surprising eliminations in Q2; however these drivers will feel the benefit of having more fresh tyres, so it will be interesting to see what they can do with them. read more »

Pastor Maldonado claimed his first front row grid position today in qualifying for tomorrow's Spanish Grand Prix. After topping the times in Q2, Pastor drove a great... read more »

From a team perspective, we got two cars into the top ten and both drivers will start from the cleaner side of the grid, while our positions were probably as good as we could... 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 »

Mark Webber may have seen his Barcelona pole run end with a lowly 12th place on Saturday, but the Australian carries no less than four sets of new tyres into Sunday’s... read more »

Narain Karthikeyan has been granted permission to start the Spanish Grand Prix despite missing the 107% qualifying time. The Indian driver suffered from a poorly fitted onboard... read more »

Sebastian Vettel has revealed his lack of running in Q3 was not because of a problem with his car but was rather a decision to save tyres... read more »

We have four new sets of tyres for Mark and three for Sebastian, which can be extremely valuable in the race. read more »