Cyril Dumont, Renault: "A great recovery - if someone had offered me this result yesterday, I would have signed for it immediately. The start was not so good, but the strategy worked well and the pace of the car was strong. I think the most important thing is that we scored some important points in both Championships. We extend the lead in the Constructors' and both drivers got closer to Alonso in the Drivers."

"In so doing, he made it look easy. But, when a driver manages a race win from pole position, leading all the way, the excellence of his performance isn't always as obvious as when he wins it by attacking from behind. But Jenson has been super-quick all weekend, and he controlled the race with total authority, managing tyre wear masterfully all the way. It wasn't easy, even if it looked that way, and I'm extremely proud of him, as is everyone at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes.

"He scored 25 world championship points for us this afternoon - which are hugely valuable to our constructors' world championship effort as well as to his own drivers' world championship campaign - but of course we should have scored significantly more points than that. And, had Lewis not been embroiled in a first-corner shunt in which he was entirely blameless, we'd have duly scored those extra points. The accident was a great shame for Lewis, and for the other innocents whose races were also ruined, but that's motor racing.

"We take a great many positives from the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix - not least the fact that we won it, which means that we've now won two grands prix on the trot. Our car is clearly very quick. Now, we aim to take that impressive form forward to Monza, where, in just a few days' time, we'll be aiming to score a hat-trick. Believe me: both world championships remain well within our sights."

Stefano Domenicali: First, the good news: Fernando is fine. All of us and I think also all Ferrari fans went through a heart-stopping moment after the accident, especially as we could not communicate with him. Only when we saw him emerge from the cockpit could we let out a first sigh of relief and then we began to breathe normally when we saw him make it back to the garage. Clearly, after that came the great disappointment at what had happened at the start, because it was within our ability to get the podium finish that was our target after yesterday. Today, the F2012 had a good pace, as Felipe demonstrated, driving a great race. We are happy for him, because a good result is just what was required at this point of the season. As for the accident, I can only say that the judgement falls to the FIA: what is certain is that, it would be better if, starting with the junior formulae, rules relating to on-track behaviour were enforced in an inflexible manner, so as to have drivers as well prepared as possible when they reach this, the highest level of motor sport. My duty, as head of the team is to ensure everyone focuses on their own tasks, especially at difficult times: therefore now we must quickly put this day behind us and look to the next Grand Prix, the one in Monza, a track that is particularly dear to us.

Pat Fry: Great regret, but equally or perhaps even more, a great relief: that would sum up our emotions at the end of this Grand Prix. The regret is down to the fact that today we could have brought home a great result in terms of the championship with Fernando, especially in the light of a great race from Felipe, who staged a strong climb up the order with some nice passing moves. Unfortunately, incidents like the one that put Fernando out of the race are part of racing, even it's not nice to see a driver have to retire after a few metres, when both he and his team are totally blameless. The relief obviously stems from the fact Fernando is fine: it was a very risky situation and seeing one car fly over his, a few centimetres above his helmet left us with our hearts in our mouths for a few tenths of a second. What is not looking so good is his car: there will be a lot of unexpected work to do for the guys in Maranello to get it prepared for Monza! From a technical point of view, the outcome of the race shows that the McLaren is very strong on very different circuits like Budapest and Spa, therefore we still have a lot of work to do to get to their level. Red Bull too was competitive but I think that Fernando could have had the better of them if he'd raced. We now look forward to the special event that is Monza, both because it is the Scuderia's home race and also because it is held on a track that is now unique on the current calendar in terms of its characteristics. It's hard to say now if we will be competitive at the highest level, but clearly we will do all in our power to succeed.

Michael ran a two-stop option/prime/option strategy, stopping on laps 19 and 35. He drove the final few laps of the race without sixth gear, having lost it shortly after his second stop. Nico also completed two stops, using prime/option/option tyres, and stopping on laps 20 and 36.

Ross Brawn: It was a very exciting race for Michael, and a great demonstration of his skills in his 300th Grand Prix. Unfortunately we didn't quite have a quick enough car today to be pushing for the podium. Michael also had a problem with his gearbox towards the end which prevented him from challenging after his second stop. Nico made a strong effort to get into the points and almost succeeded. However with a lack of dry running, and the car not quite set up as he wanted, that was always going to be tough. We will look ahead now to Monza and keep working hard to improve our performance.

Norbert Haug: Two-thirds of the race looked quite promising for Michael who drove a great race on the occasion of his 300th Grand Prix. The plan was to do a one-stop strategy which we then switched to two stops. Michael was in third with 10 laps to go, however the trio behind him were able to go much quicker with fresh tyres than Michael could on his set of primes which were already 26 laps old. He then lost sixth gear, so seventh was the result we could achieve today, and Michael showed some great manoeuvres throughout the race. Nico started 23rd and finished 11th - also for him more was not possible with our current technical package. We now are looking forward to the Italian Grand Prix next week at Monza.

Both drivers started on scrubbed medium compound Pirelli tyres. Kimi stopped on laps 11 and 28, both times for new hard compound tyres. Both stops were sub 3 seconds.

Eric Boullier, Team Principal: "It's been a tough day for the team but we fully respect the Stewards' decision. Romain won't be driving at Monza but he still has our full support. We'll announce the name of his replacement a bit later in the week. As far as the race is concerned, unfortunately we didn't have the pace for Kimi to challenge Jenson [Button] or Sebastian [Vettel]. We had to look closely at the strategy during the race to see if we should switch to one stop, but in the end a podium finish still brings us some good points. Of course, everyone talks about 'the win', and this is something we all want. We were not fast enough for it today, so we all need to keep working hard for this goal."

James Allison, Technical Director: "Kimi did a really good job to salvage third position today with a car which really wasn't quick enough, contrary to all our expectations coming into the event. In actual fact, this has been one of our tougher weekends and we're thankful that Kimi did his best to limit the damage to our Championship aspirations. Fortunately, Spa can be viewed as sufficiently distinct in its characteristics to mean that we're not unduly worried about the car's potential performance heading to the next races."

Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "Getting a podium here is satisfying considering the challenge of the track, with nearly three quarters of the lap spent at full throttle. We introduced new units this weekend to maximise power on the straights and help overtaking. We needed it today when Kimi made an awesome move to overtake Michael [Schumacher]. It bodes well for Monza though where a similar emphasis is placed on outright top speed."

Dr Vijay Mallya, Team Principal & Managing Director: "Spa usually delivers drama and great racing, and today's Grand Prix was full of both. Nico drove a brilliant race to finish fourth on a day when it was important to capitalise on the first lap incident that befell some of our competitors. He stayed out of trouble and ran as high as second after the safety car and showed strong pace with a perfect two-stop strategy. We've been waiting for a result like this for a while and it's a great reward for Nico and the entire team. We could have scored even more points had Paul's race not been compromised by the KERS failure, and he did well to pick up a point today. The result is important for our fight in the constructors' championship because we have now moved ahead of Williams. We will try and carry this momentum into Monza next weekend."

Monisha Kaltenborn, CEO: "It is very disappointing that once again factors beyond our control have ruined another race of ours. We have to take the positive out of this weekend that if we don't make mistakes and get the right qualifying we can be right in front, and that has to be our target again for the next race."

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "We lost the chance of a good result with both cars at the start because Checo had to stop and Kamui's car was damaged. On top of this we had to pit him at the end of lap seven because he had a puncture from the same debris. That was it. We lost pace, we lost a good strategy, we lost position we even lost the chance of recovery with the safety car because of the additional pit stop."

Pastor Maldonado had a difficult opening few laps after being caught in a multi-car incident at La Source which brought out the safety car. Pastor pitted for fresh tyres and rejoined the back of the field, but on the restart made contact with Timo Glock, forcing him to stop out on track with damage.

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: Pastor's race was over very quickly following contact with Glock which forced him to retire. Bruno had a very good start from 17th on the grid and pushed hard on a one-stop strategy, but unfortunately we didn't have the pace today to make this work. A few laps before the end of the race we noticed Bruno's rear-right tyre pressure dropping due to a puncture. The puncture forced us to pit, with Bruno eventually finishing out of the points in 12th.

Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 team support leader: Today was very disappointing considering Pastor's starting position. Losing some points just at the end with Bruno was another tough pill to swallow, but we can take encouragement from the fact the car has shown signs of good pace this weekend, including setting the fastest lap of the race, which bodes well for Monza.

Riad Asmat, Caterham Group Chief Executive: "This has been a tough race for the team and it is fair to say we have not helped ourselves with a number of avoidable errors costing us over the weekend. Both Heikki and Vitaly have given as much as they can and we need to make sure we give them the platform to reward the efforts they are making. It is good that we have the next race back to back with Spa as it gives us the chance to regroup and sign off the European season on a positive note and that is the clear objective next weekend in Monza."

With no time to lose the team heads to Monza where the Italian Grand Prix will get underway in only 4 days. This will be the thirteenth event of the season and the last one taking place on European soil.

Luis Perez-Sala, Team Principal: "It was an exciting race for us because we battled with a few of our rivals for a large part of the race. Unfortunately, after Narain's last pitstop, we had a problem and he had to retire when he was in the middle of a sensational race. The positive aspect is that Pedro was able to finish the event and that the performance of the cars was good so I'm happy because we're on the same positive line as before the summer break."

Despite running to different strategies -Timo switched to a two-stop early in the race, while Charles remained on one - they ended the race neck and neck, notwithstanding Charles' tyre degradation. Timo eventually got the upper hand and led the team home in P15 from Charles in P16 but the great display of two natural born racers which seemed to capture the imagination of the viewing audience served to further underline the progress that will be borne out by today's timesheets.

John Booth, Team Principal: "We predicted we would be stronger in the race versus qualifying and that was indeed the case today. For large portions of the race, the substantial upgrade we introduced here allowed our drivers to match the pace of our immediate competitors, so we can be pleased overall that the margins are reducing and also we only saw a few blue flags and quite late on in the race. These incremental upgrades will bring the additional pace that will significantly aid our ability to race on the lead lap and minimise our blue flag time loss towards the end of the race.

"The extremely eventful opening lap made life a little difficult for us with both of our cars having to pick their way through the huge amount of debris in turn one, which had brought out the safety car. Then, the incident between Maldonado and Timo left him right at the back of the field behind the HRTs, which was less than ideal in terms of our objective of taking the fight to Caterham after the safety car restart. We opted to switch Timo to a two-stop strategy to allow him the free air he needed to achieve our pace potential in the middle stint in order to close the gap. This worked well and Timo did a great job to respond to the switch. We put Charles on a more conservative one-stop strategy and this led to the two drivers being particularly close at the end of the race. Charles was on older tyres and Timo was able to get past in the final few laps but by this stage, despite his pace, the gap created as a consequence of earlier incidents meant there was no hope of him catching up to Petrov. We have shown another legitimate step with our upgrades, thanks to the hard work by the team back in Banbury and also our partners at Cosworth. I'm sure this will give everyone a huge boost going into Monza and with a full Friday of practice running to fine-tune our package I'm sure we can continue to see more of this steady progression forward."

Button started from pole position on the P Zero White medium tyres before stopping on lap 20 to change onto the P Zero Silver hard tyre, from which he emerged with his lead over Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel still intact. Vettel - on the same strategy - stopped one lap later and went on to finish second, having started from 10th.

Mercedes driver Michael Schumacher, competing in his 300th grand prix, was the only other top driver to attempt a one-stop race but reverted to a two-stopper with nine laps to go while fighting for a podium.

The teams had to adjust their tyre strategies as the result of an incident at the first corner of the race that eliminated four cars and brought the safety car out for four laps while debris was cleared. As tyre wear is at its peak at the start of the race, with the cars on full fuel, the delay meant that a number of drivers were able to switch to a one-stop strategy while others stuck with a two-stop plan.

At the start only Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg started on the hard tyre, with the other competitors starting the race on the medium. Hulkenberg stopped twice and finished fourth from 11th on the grid, while Rosberg - who was forced to start from 23rd - also stopped twice and ended up 11th.

The highest-placed two-stopper was Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen, who finished third after completing two final stints on the hard tyre, just under half a minute behind Button.

Paul Hembery: "This year's Belgian Grand Prix was all about shifting variables, with Friday's action rained off leaving the teams with minimal information about the slick tyres before qualifying and the race. Then, a long safety car period at the beginning of the race meant that the parameters were altered once more, with many teams having to quickly adapt their strategies to make the most out of another new situation. Jenson Button and McLaren gave us a master class in tyre management, stopping just once but at the same time pulling away from their rivals. The same was true for Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, who also made a one-stop strategy work very effectively and gained eight places. Although Spa places heavier demands on the tyres than any other circuit on the calendar, our tyres performed well in terms of both performance and durability. Button made his final set of medium tyres perform effectively for 24 laps, or more than 160 kilometres, without any drop-off in terms of speed."