Thierry Salvi, Renault: "What an amazing weekend, with both drivers out in front in qualifying and the race. That was a driving demonstration from Seb, while Mark was able to get out of the traffic after a difficult start and secure a great 1-2. It's a fantastic result for Renault as well on such a demanding track, particularly after the difficulties we experienced at the last race with Mark. We're happy to give him the weapons he needs to fight in the race - and help us enjoy the end of the season!"

Pat Fry: "Today's race was intense and action packed and our drivers were in the thick of it right to the end, despite the fact that the top places were out of our reach. Initially, we had thought of running just a one stop race, but when we realised that that the wear rate of the Mediums in the second stint would not have allowed us to go all the way to the end, while doing competitive times, backed up by our simulation systems, we told Fernando and Felipe to go flat out, as they would need to make a second stop. With Fernando, we managed to get to lap 44 which meant he was able to run the Softs to the end of the race. Unfortunately, we couldn't do the same with Felipe and with him we chose not to risk it, keeping him on the Mediums. It was a real shame. The two F138s proved they had a good pace, definitely better in the lower temperatures and both drivers were involved in close fights and made spectacular passing moves. In the last two races, we must improve, especially in qualifying, because only by starting further forward can we put ourselves in a position to fight for second place in the Constructors' Championship".

"Jenson was unlucky to incur front-wing damage at the start, as a result of contact with another car, triggering an unscheduled early pitstop. However, thereafter he did a truly brilliant job of tyre management, running the Prime for an extremely impressive 44 laps [from lap 12 to lap 55, inclusive].

"Had that early mishap not occurred - and had he instead been able to drive the first 44 laps of the race on the Prime - undoubtedly he'd have been able to finish very strongly and thereby score a decent number of world championship points. So that was a great pity, because as I say he drove beautifully and in my view a performance of that quality deserves to be rewarded with world championship points. But that's racing.

"From here we travel to Austin, where we hope that Formula 1 will once again put on a spectacular show in a market that's full of avid racing fans and is of course also crucial to most if not all of Vodafone McLaren Mercedes' many partners."

A flying start from Romain saw him jump two places to fourth position through the opening series of corners; settling in behind the third-placed Red Bull of Mark Webber until the first round of pit stops. Kimi meanwhile saw his evening curtailed after just a few hundred metres; a clash of wheels with Caterham's Giedo van der Garde resulting in a broken track rod on the Finn's E21.

Having emerged right behind Esteban Guttierez after his first pit stop, Romain wasted little time in passing the Mexican, only to be held up behind Adrian Sutil until the second phase of stops. Once in clear air, the Frenchman pushed hard to build a sufficient gap which would allow him to re-join in front of both Ferraris following his second stop; achieving that task by the narrowest of margins. Despite consistently closing the gap to Nico Rosberg in the closing stages, Romain missed out on a fourth consecutive podium finish by a margin of just a single second at the flag.

Kimi retains third place in the Drivers' Championship on 183 points; 34 behind Fernando Alonso in second. Romain remains in seventh position with 114 points; trailing Nico Rosberg by 45. The team remains fourth in the Constructors' Championship on 297 points from Ferrari's 323, with third spot remaining a firm target heading into the final two races of the season.

Kimi started from twenty-second on the grid with a new set of medium tyres, having been excluded from his P5 qualifying slot due to a technical infringement on his E21. He retired on the first lap after contact with Giedo van der Garde at Turn 1 which broke his right-front track rod.

Romain started from sixth on a scrubbed set of soft tyres, having been promoted one position on the grid as a result of his team-mate's penalty. The Frenchman pitted on lap eight for new mediums, and again on lap thirty-seven for a scrubbed set of the same compound.

In his pursuit of the final podium position, Romain set the third fastest lap of the race on his penultimate lap; underlining the pace of the E21 here at the Yas Marina Circuit.

Eric Boullier, Team Principal: "It's been a difficult weekend for the team, but we can be pleased with the fact our car has once again shown strong pace at another different circuit. After the misfortune of his qualifying penalty it was always going to be a tough race for Kimi. Starting at the back with a faster car always puts you in a tricky position, and in the end it was bad luck once again that saw his race end on the first lap; for the first time since 2006 I believe. Romain drove a very mature race to narrowly miss out on his fourth consecutive podium, which on another day and without his issues in qualifying would certainly have been within reach. We have some work to do if we are to achieve our target of third place in the Constructors' Championship, so our focus must now be on returning to the podium in Austin."

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "We came into this weekend anticipating another podium challenge, but unfortunately circumstances have ultimately conspired against that happening. Having already been stripped of his best qualifying performance since Germany, Kimi's race was cut short on the first lap after a tangle with one of the Caterhams, bringing a disappointing end to a weekend where his pace had been much improved. It was a trouble free race for Romain by contrast, who drove well to take fourth place. His progress was quite heavily hindered by traffic midway through the race and we didn't quite have the pace to challenge [Nico] Rosberg in the closing stages, so realistically he achieved the best possible result on the day. What's especially pleasing is that he's gone from being labelled a ‘first lap nutcase' to consistently gaining positions away from the line and through the opening sequence of corners at each race. We now head to Austin where we'll be working hard to make a return to the podium."

Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "Romain did a great job today to finish just outside the podium places. Again he managed the engine and fuel consumption well so we could turn up the engine modes when we needed to push and he came away with some valuable points for the championship battle. Unfortunately Kimi stopped early, but it's always a risk when starting from that position. We'll keep it focused for the final two races though and try to get as many points as we can to finish the V8 era on a high."

The team scored 21 points this evening to consolidate second place in the Constructors' Championship on a total of 334 points. Nico started and finished P3, scoring his fourth podium finish of the year and the team's ninth in total. He followed a two-stop strategy, running option/prime/prime, pitting on laps 10 and 33. Lewis finished in P7 after losing time behind the Sauber of Gutierrez in his second stint of the race. In spite of a clear performance advantage, Lewis did not have the car performance at the right point of the lap to overtake. Lewis also followed a two-stop strategy, running option/prime/prime, making his stops on laps 7 and 29.

Ross Brawn: Nico drove a great race this afternoon. We don't yet have the car to compete with Red Bull but he put in a superb performance with good tactics, the right strategy and great pit stops. Our crew has had a tough weekend here in Abu Dhabi and it's to their great credit they performed so well today. It was a perfect race for Nico and delivered the maximum we could achieve today. Lewis got tangled up in other people's races after his first stop and found it impossible to overtake in traffic. This is a clear weakness of our package at the moment and he spent most of his race behind slower cars, unable to demonstrate his true speed. This is an issue where we need to get our thinking caps on in order to find a more effective compromise because there's little point having a quick car if we can't use that performance in the race. Even so, he still managed to collect valuable points with seventh place which further strengthened our championship position. We've had a good run in this sequence of races and we need to keep that going.

Toto Wolff: A great race from Nico who drove a strong opening corner, made an important move on Webber and opened up the race from there. From that point, he was clever at managing his pace, the traffic and his tyres; the strategy worked out well and a second consecutive podium finish was a just reward. I have to apologise to Lewis because he had the pace to finish much higher up today but things just didn't come together, not through any fault of his own. Overall, we can be pleased with the last two races: we have out-scored Ferrari by 21 points and Lotus by 14 points, which has put us back in the driving seat to finish P2. But we cannot afford to rest on our laurels. The final two races will be just as hard fought and we will need to address some of our weaknesses if we want to cement second position in the Constructors' standings.

Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "We are not satisfied with a result like this, because the chance to get points was there. The performance the car showed on Friday and Saturday wasn't there today. At the moment we don't know why this was the case, so we will analyse that. The drive through penalty for Nico didn't help either and, with Esteban starting P16, it was always going to be a challenging race. This doesn't make our task for the end of the season any easier, but we expect to me more competitive again in the next two races."

Tom McCullough, Head of Track Engineering: "Finishing out oft he points is disappointing having started fifth and 16th. Ultimately with our pace and tyre degradation we were not able to make the one stop strategy work, so we stuck to our planned two stop strategy. The drive through penalty for unsafe release cost Nico his day. For Esteban starting in P16 was always going to be difficult, but he fought well. We will regroup now for the final two races in order to make sure we will be able to fully exploit our qualifying and race pace."

Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal: "The whole team can feel very proud of today's result, which sets us up nicely for the final couple of races. With nine points in the bag the sixth place in the championship is looking much more realistic and we are only 18 points away from fifth place. Despite the limited practice mileage on Friday we felt confident of pulling off the one-stop strategy, just as we did in India last weekend. Paul and Adrian drove faultless races, looked after their tyres when they needed to and showed very strong pace throughout. It's rewarding to see the progress we have made in the last couple of races, which is a result of all the hard work behind the scenes. We've kept our heads down, worked hard and it is starting to show. We now look forward to Austin with optimism and hope to build on the performance of the last two races."

Valtteri started on the medium tyre but struggled to get them up to temperature in the first few laps, but showed consistent pace thereafter in what has been an improved performance for the team this weekend.

Xevi Pujolar, Chief Race Engineer: Pastor had a strong start on the soft option tyre putting him in a good position by the end of lap one. We planned a two-stop strategy with a short opening stint before we switched him onto the prime tyre. As everyone else around us started to pit, we were in a good position during the second stint but wanted to pit for the final set of medium tyres as early as possible. Unfortunately, we were a bit limited with our pitstops again, due to our modified procedures to ensure safety, so we weren't able to jump everyone we had hoped. The pace of the cars that had one-stopped also didn't drop off as much expected towards the end, so although we were close we couldn't quite get into the points today. Valtteri struggled to get temperature into the prime tyres at the start so lost out on the first lap and his opening stint was compromised. We considered switching to a one-stop but ultimately decided to stick to strategy, and aimed to attack on the new option tyres in the final laps. With his pitstops also compromised, we weren't quite close enough in the final stint, but overall it was a good performance from both of our drivers today.

Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 team support leader: We seemed to have unleashed some performance earlier in the weekend and came very close to consolidating it with points in the race. Unfortunately we were just outside the top ten this time, but we can take confidence from this for the final two Grands Prix.

Max got a great start and managed to leapfrog the Caterhams, but further into the opening lap he lost out both to them and his team-mate Jules Bianchi, who was able to squeeze by. From there onwards they held station whilst both battling with the car balance and a lack of pace today meant they were unable to keep in touch with the competition.

Both drivers started on the Soft tyre and completed two pit stops, taking on the Medium tyre for the following two stints.

Max maintains his record of finishing every race this season and the Marussia F1 Team still holds 10th place in the Constructors' Championship.

John Booth, Team Principal: "A very disappointing race for us today and it is clear that we have taken a step back in terms of pace relative to qualifying and where we were in India. We will need to analyse the race in a lot of detail in order to understand why that is, especially when we consider that our qualifying performance looked good yesterday. During the race both drivers reported poor car balance and I'm sure this will be the main focus of our work between now and Austin. On the positive side we saw good starts again this week, both cars ran reliably and we got on top of all the issues that we saw yesterday. We leave Abu Dhabi with a lot of work to do but we will be back to strength in two weeks' time."

The majority of drivers started the race on the soft tyre. The exceptions were McLaren's Jenson Button, the Williams of Valtteri Bottas, Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez, Force India's Adrian Sutil and Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen - who started at the back of the grid because of a technical infringement.

Vettel took the lead from the start and made his first pit stop on lap 14, changing from the soft to the medium compound, before rejoining in the lead. Force India's Paul Di Resta ran the longest opening stint on the soft tyre, 20 laps, while his team mate Sutil ran the longest first stint on the mediums, stopping on lap 28. This strategy allowed Di Resta and Sutil to finish sixth and 10th respectively (from 11th and 17th on the grid).

Vettel stopped again on lap 37 for more mediums without losing the lead, eventually winning from his team mate Mark Webber by half a minute: Red Bull's third one-two of the season and the team's 100th podium. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso adopted a different strategy by running a 11-lap final stint on the soft tyre, which enabled him to overtake cars at the end and finish fifth. McLaren's Jenson Button completed 44 laps on the medium tyre and would have completed a one-stop strategy, had he not been forced into the pits early on with front wing damage.

Paul Hembery: "First of all, congratulations to Sebastian Vettel for winning this race. A variety of strategies were deployed, with good levels of wear and degradation on both compounds, which meant that drivers were able to complete long opening stints even on the soft tyre. Sebastian drove a masterful race to win without ever losing the lead, making the most of the fact that he had not used the medium compound at all in qualifying, leaving him with two fresh sets of mediums today. As usual we saw a high degree of track evolution and falling track temperatures over the course of the race, although perhaps not to the extent we actually anticipated."