Cyril Dumont, Renault: "Of course we would have preferred to have finished higher at this last race of the first half of the season. It was tough today; I think the race win for Seb was more or less over after the first corner when he got stuck behind Button. For Mark he had a mechanical issue and we saw again here that it's pretty difficult to overtake. Now it's time to have a good rest. I would like to thank everyone involved with our engine package and especially my team for the work they have done in the first half of the season. We're leading the Championship and we'll be back full of beans soon."

"He made a superb start from pole position, then controlled the race with masterful authority, all the while balancing the necessity to execute rapid laps against the equally pressing requirement to conserve his tyres.

"The 25 points he annexed today have taken his season-so-far total to 117. Although he's still a little way behind the Drivers' World Championship leader, he's now very well placed to mount an assault on the Drivers' World Championship crown over the remaining nine races of the season. Believe me, it's still all up for grabs.

"Jenson had a frustrating race but nonetheless managed to score a useful eight points as a result of finishing in sixth place. Like Lewis, he'll come back from the mid-season break ready to attack the second half of the season with energy and enthusiasm. And, again, also like Lewis, he'll be aiming to score plenty of points, at Spa-Francorchamps and Interlagos and everywhere in between.

"Yesterday Lewis scored the 150th pole position in McLaren's history - and today he notched up our 178th Grand Prix victory. It was his 101st Grand Prix - and it's difficult to imagine a better way for him to have begun his second century of Grand Prix appearances, isn't it?

"In the Constructors' World Championship, the 33 points that Lewis and Jenson scored today have lifted Vodafone McLaren Mercedes to second place overall. Again, as with the Drivers' World Championship, we're in a good position from which to work as hard as is humanly possible to close the gap on the leaders and wrest the Constructors' laurels by season's end.

"Talking of hard work, I want to pay tribute to the massively impressive levels of dogged application and sheer graft that everyone at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes in Woking [Surrey, UK] and at Mercedes-Benz AMG HighPerformancePowertrains in Brixworth [Northamptonshire, UK] has brought to bear on the 2012 Formula 1 World Championship campaign so far. And, in fact, I want to say an especially big 'thank you' to our friends from Stuttgart [Germany] as well as from Brixworth, actually, because today's win was the 75th victory of the McLaren/Mercedes-Benz partnership: a pretty impressive stat!

"We'll now take our holidays, we'll recharge our batteries, and we'll return at Spa-Francorchamps in a month's time, fighting fit and ready to do battle once again. Bring it on!"

Stefano Domenicali: Definitely a case of the glass being half full! Fifth place for Fernando has allowed him to extend his lead in the classification, which is a very important achievement on a weekend in which we definitely did not have the performance to fight with the best. It was a very hard race, decided for the most part by grid positions and the start, with the only variables concerning tyre degradation and the different strategies adopted. I think that, as far as the latter is concerned, we made the right choices, which resulted in Fernando getting ahead of at least two cars that were quicker than his. In fact, it was the start that had a negative effect for Felipe: the places he lost then could not be made up, despite having a race pace that matched those ahead of him. As I said at the start, the outcome of this weekend is not a negative one, but clearly we need to look closely at the way the weekend went as a whole to discover the reasons why we were not as competitive as in the last few races. Now we still have a week of work before the summer break: there's a lot to do to reduce the performance gap and to be as well prepared as possible for the last two races still to be run in Europe. At Spa and Monza we will race in very different conditions and at very different tracks to Budapest, so anything can happen. It will be important to be ready for every eventuality. We will be able to take a breather for a few days, but I'm sure all our guys have just one thought in mind...

Pat Fry: It was a very difficult weekend, in which we were never able to fight on equal terms with the best. In fact, we know we have definitely not been the quickest in the first half of the season and so it was hard to imagine that we could have been here. At the Hungaroring, grid position and the start have a significant effect on the final outcome, because overtaking, despite the recent introduction of DRS, is still rare and difficult. Although Fernando started on the dirty side of the track, he still managed to make up one place by the end of the opening lap, first by defending at the start and then by attacking at Turn 2. Unfortunately, Felipe did not manage to make the most of being on the clean side of the grid and now we have to work out why that happened. Clearly that meant from then on, the Brazilian's race was an uphill struggle, which was a shame as he still showed he had a good pace over a long stint. Fernando delivered his usual nice race which, partly down to the strategy, allowed him to keep his closest rival in the championship behind him, as well as getting ahead of one of the cars that had started ahead of him on the grid. We had two options - two or three stops - but we saw that degradation was not that bad, which meant that with Fernando, we were able to overtake at least two of the three top cars that had gone for the more aggressive strategy. We still lack performance and we must push even harder on developing the F2012 if we want to fight all the way to the end to reach our goals. We still have a week of work before taking a breather, but the fact we can pack Fernando off on holiday with a forty point lead is no reason to relax, quite the opposite in fact. There's a lot of very strong competition who are just waiting for us to drop the ball and it's down to us to disappoint them.

Nico made up three places on his grid position of 13th with an option/prime/prime strategy. Michael started from the pit lane, picked up a drive-through penalty and was forced to stop again with a puncture. He followed an option/prime/prime strategy before the team retired his car after 58 laps.

Ross Brawn: Nico did a good job today, and 10th place is about where the car was, if not a little better. He drove very well to make the tyres last which is a positive sign, and a good strategy saw him pick up places. Michael had a much more eventful race. He started from the pit lane, incurred a penalty and then had a puncture so it wasn't exactly an ideal start to the afternoon. During that period, we lost all telemetry on his car, and subsequently had various problems during the race which we weren't entirely sure what they were, therefore we decided to retire the car. We are clearly not as competitive as we want to be and, whilst we got everything out of the car today, we need to find more performance and lap time.

Norbert Haug: After a problematic qualifying where we did not make it into Q3 for the first time this season, we could not expect a good race result today. After his first stop on lap 15, Nico was already 26 seconds down to the leader, and he lost another 25 seconds during the following 52 laps. About half a second a lap - a gap that we experienced already at the previous races in Silverstone and Hockenheim. So it is very clear that we have a lot of work ahead of us, and I am convinced that we will improve our performance during the remaining nine races. After his start from the pit lane and his drive-through penalty, the team brought Michael in as a precaution with 11 laps to go. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes on their 75th win with a Mercedes engine in the last 15 years.

Both drivers started on scrubbed soft compound Pirelli tyres, changing to another set of scrubbed softs and finishing on new sets of the medium compound tyres. Romain stopped for tyres on laps 19 and 39. Kimi on laps 20 and 45.

Eric Boullier, Team Principal: "Both cars on the podium ends a pretty good weekend for the team. For everyone back at Enstone we must pay credit as they work so hard for results like this, but seldom get to taste the champagne at the track. I'm very happy that Romain came back after a tough weekend in Germany and I'm very happy to see Kimi fighting for the win. Our new approach to qualifying is delivering. We qualified better this weekend and we chased the leader of the race for many laps. On a different track layout which allows overtaking I think we could have won this race."

James Allison, Technical Director: "It was an excellent race from both our drivers, from the E20 and from the whole team. We made very strong progress with a good haul of Drivers' and Constructors' points today. We're only just past the halfway mark in the season so it's not fantasy to think that we're still in the hunt in both championships. The general trend is of our car getting stronger and I hope that we can press that home in the coming races."

Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "A fantastic double podium today and very important for the championship. We've worked very closely with the chassis team all weekend to deliver the correct engine response into and out of the many corners of the Hungaroring and the package has looked quick all weekend. It's very positive that we are able to score results on all types of tracks, from the high speed circuits such as Hockenheim to the low average speeds of the Hungaroring."

Dr Vijay Mallya, Team Principal & Managing Director: "We've shown flashes of speed this weekend, but ultimately we haven't been consistent enough to achieve our goal of finishing in the points. We didn't qualify well enough and that hurt us this afternoon because there was little chance to progress on a track where overtaking is so difficult. There was no room to improvise with the strategy and our two-stop approach was definitely the right call considering the cars that we were racing against. We will take the positives from the last few days and try to understand where we can find more performance so that we can come back stronger after the summer break.

The Sauber F1 Team has scored 80 points in the first half of the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship and remains a strong sixth in the constructors' standings after 11 of the 20 races. In the drivers' championship both are in the top ten as the teams go into the summer break, with Sergio ninth (47 points) and Kamui tenth (33 points).

Monisha Kaltenborn, CEO: "Looking at our grid positions, we achieved what we could today. Both our drivers did a good job, but overtaking on this track is extremely difficult as we saw from the experiences of the other drivers. We paid the price for a weak qualifying and have to work on improving this."

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "In the end we finished as high as we could this weekend. It's difficult to judge our race performance because our drivers were stuck in traffic for quite some time. Kamui lost some positions at the start, which made things difficult for him. We pitted him earlier than planned to get him out of traffic, and this helped a bit. However, halfway through the race we discovered there was a small hydraulic leak which became worse and worse, and we decided to call him in one lap before the end of the race. Checo gained a position at the start, but we were still outside the points. Therefore we decided to take a risk and extend his first stint, looking into the possibility of making just one stop. But the tyres didn't last long enough, so in hindsight it didn't pay off. We also delayed the second stop, which helped Checo to catch up some of the other drivers, but in the end we have to accept overall this weekend we were not fast enough. We have to react to this."

Pastor Maldonado finished in 13th; his race hindered by a bad start and having to serve a drive-through penalty after making contact with Paul Di Resta in the latter stages.

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: I am pleased for Bruno who had an excellent race and the six points are a very welcome boost for the whole team going into the August break. Pastor had a poor start off the grid which compromised his race. He then pushed hard with good pace but received a drive-through penalty for his overtake on Di Resta. I'd like to thank the pit stop crew who did very well today, with our fastest ever stop. Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 team support leader: Bruno has looked strong all weekend and it's good to have this rewarded with some points today. Engine wise we've had a positive weekend and want to keep this momentum going over the summer - when we come back we go straight to the tracks where outright power is rewarded.

"However, we are not where we want to be and we know we have work to do to achieve the goals we have set for this season. The positives are that we have a break ahead of us, giving us time to take stock and recharge the batteries, and we then have the second half of the season to reach the level of performance we want for the 2012 season. We have the infrastructure in place, we have the right people and with the move to Leafield we have the facility so everything is in place."

Riad Asmat, CEO: "I am reasonably pleased with how we have ended the first half of the season. Both drivers, the team in the garage and on the pit-wall did well today.

"I will take some positives out of the first half of the season, but the team now needs to use the break to recharge and then come back fighting. We understand that we have much more work to do in order to progress as quickly as we would like, and I believe we will return after the summer break feeling energised and with our entire focus on continuing to grow the team and to keep on taking measured steps forwards."

The team now returns to Madrid to work for a couple of days at the Caja Magica headquarters before jetting off on holiday during the obligatory factory shutdown. A well deserved rest after an intense but gratifying first half of the season which has seen the birth and first steps of the renewed HRT Formula 1 Team.

Luis Perez-Sala, Team Principal: "It was an interesting race for us because we fought one-on-one with Glock from start to finish. Pedro and Narain got ahead of him and stayed in front until halfway through the race, but they overtook us in the second pitstop. Pedro had him in his sights towards the end but this time it wasn't to be. Although we finished behind our rivals, we kept a good pace and the most negative aspect is the problem Narain suffered with his suspension, which we now must analyze. Now we return to Madrid, to the Caja Magica, and after a few more days of work we will take a couple of days off to head into the second half of the season full of energy to continue progressing and improving this project."

After bogging down at the start, Charles made a swift recovery and was soon in touch with the Caterham ahead, trading lap times with the Russian driver. He ran for 20 laps on the Pirelli P-Zero Medium tyre, then on the Soft option tyre, he was able to outpace the Caterham. He switched back to the Medium tyre on lap 39 and remaining on a two-stop strategy rather than the three-stopping car ahead, he was still matching lap times but unable to reduce the gap as he contended with advancing traffic.

Timo had a torrid race. A spin on lap 3 at turn 3 left him behind the HRT cars and some way adrift. He fought back but was stuck behind for a large chunk of the race. When he was able to get by - passing Karthikeyan on track and De La Rosa in the pits - he was at least able to reveal more of his true pace.

John Booth, Team Principal: "First of all I would like to congratulate the whole team on the clear strides we have made so far this season which, based on today's performance, are clearly evident. Whilst we have occupied similar race placings for much of the season, we have slowly but surely been eating into the gap to Caterham, pulled further away from HRT behind and, bigger picture, reduced the margin to the front running teams. With another very impressive drive today, Charles has shown just how far we have come, as he was in touch with - and occasionally quicker - than Petrov for a large part of the race. By contrast, Timo had another tough time and has not yet been able to benefit from the clear progress we are making with the package. A long break is just what the sport needs right now and we'll go back to the UK, spend the week preparing for the long haul races in the not too distant future and then literally down tools for a couple of weeks to enjoy a well-earned holiday. It has been a challenging first seven months of the year and the whole team are to be congratulated for responding so well. I have every confidence that when we return to Spa in one month's time, both drivers will be able to reap even more from the current package and the developments we will bring for Monza."

The top 10 all started the race on the P Zero Yellow soft tyre, which was nominated along with the P Zero White medium tyre for Hungary. Red Bull's Mark Webber was the highest-placed driver to start on the medium tyre, having qualified 11th and finishing eighth. The only other drivers starting on the White medium compound were the two Marussias and the HRT of Pedro de la Rosa.

Hamilton went in front from the beginning and pitted from the lead on lap 18, handing the advantage to Lotus driver Romain Grosjean - who qualified second - but regained it when the Frenchman's stop lasted slightly longer. Hamilton's final stop for his second set of mediums took place on lap 40, putting Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen briefly into the lead. After a very strong second 25-lap stint on the soft tyre, where he leapfrogged three cars, Raikkonen's strategy put him into second overall ahead of his team mate Grosjean following the final stops. With 20 laps to go and fresher P Zero White medium tyres, Raikkonen began to reel in Hamilton, setting up another grandstand finish to chase the Englishman all the way to the finish. Grosjean finished third to make it two Lotus cars on the podium.

The top three all selected two-stop strategies, with Hamilton doing one stint on the softs and two on the mediums, whereas the Lotus drivers both did two stints on the soft and one on the medium. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel was the highest-placed driver to use a three-stop strategy, finishing fourth and setting the fastest lap of the race with the P Zero Yellow. McLaren's Jenson Button and Red Bull's Mark Webber were also three-stoppers, finishing sixth and eighth respectively.

Paul Hembery: "Because of the mixed conditions up to today, the teams were still lacking dry running with the soft tyre on full fuel heading into the race, so they all started with a number of question marks. The degradation on both compounds proved to be good, with only a few tenths of a second per lap difference between the soft and the medium tyres, which gave the teams a number of options in terms of strategy and allowed them to take a flexible approach. Lewis Hamilton's pace in qualifying meant that he was able to save a set of soft tyres for the race, which he made the most of to pull out an impressive lead - although he had to fight to keep it at the end. As usual we saw that overtaking was very difficult at the tight Hungaroring, meaning that the teams tried to use pit stop strategy to get past their rivals. The variety of strategies meant that we had a very close finish once again, despite the fact that cars following each other closely tend to increase tyre wear, as they slide more in the dirty air. We've had an unforgettable first half to the 2012 season, with one of the closest starts ever where the tyres have definitely made a difference, so we're already looking forward to the rest of the year."