Christian Horner, Team Principal: "To win in Montreal is a fantastic result for the team. Having come so close two years ago, to win in the dominant fashion that we did today was a tremendous performance, despite a couple of heart stopping moments, particularly when Seb touched the wall. He was totally commanding today and thoroughly deserved the victory. It was a shame for Mark that his race was compromised by van der Garde, who just seemed to shut the door on him for no reason damaging the front wing. But, despite that damage Mark did a tremendous job to still finish fourth."
Thierry Salvi, Renault: "A very classy performance from Sebastian today, but it wasn't at all easy - he was pushing all the way. Montreal is one of those circuits that highlights a good overall package and everything came together today. The potential was there for Mark to score a podium, but the incident with van der Garde cost some time. All the same getting the first win in Canada for Red Bull and the first Renault-powered win since 2006 is a great end to the weekend."
Stefano Domenicali: "Today, we absolutely had to make up for the difficult day we had yesterday, because we knew the more
normal weather would allow us to demonstrate our true potential. The podium was in our sights and we can claim to have hit the
target, in a race that was complicated from start to finish by our grid positions. Fernando produced an absolutely extraordinary
performance, especially when taking into account that today, our competitors operated at a really high level. Felipe also showed
exactly what he could do: managing to bring home points after starting from the back was the best response to those who felt he
was affected by the unfortunate incidents of the last few days. I must congratulate the winners, because even if it's easier to get
the job done when starting at the front, it's also true that they managed to produce a perfect qualifying, a task which we know we
must improve on. Today's race demonstrated how two of our closest rivals, Red Bull and Mercedes, have managed to make a
step forward and that's the same direction we are working in, so that we can be contenders right to the end of the
Championship."
Pat Fry: "The long straights and the DRS zones at the Montreal track, which usually help with overtaking, meant we were hopeful
of being able to race up the order, while aware that starting from sixth and sixteenth would not make that an easy task, especially
as the performance levels of the front runners were very similar today. Fernando got a great start and managed to pass Bottas,
moving up to fifth. From then on, he did an amazing job of managing his tyres, pushing at the most opportune moments which
brought him in touch with the leaders. The climb up to second place was a performance worthy of his talent, with some daring
passing moves, like the one on Hamilton. Felipe fought hard all race long, also pulling off several overtaking moves, including a
very important one on Raikkonen right at the end. Maybe if we had opted to fit Mediums at his first stop, Felipe could have
gained another place. From the pit wall, we had to manage the race for both drivers in very different track conditions to what we
experienced in the past couple of days and all in all, after all the difficulties we encountered yesterday, it was a good result. Now,
our priority is still to improve our qualifying performance and on this front, we will try to do that right from the next race in
Silverstone."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team Principal: "This was a difficult afternoon. Credit goes out to Jenson and Checo - both drivers performed brilliantly, attacking when necessary, and driving with the foresight and caution needed to look after their tyres across long stints. They deserved to score points.
"Unfortunately, with the benefit of hindsight, we were a touch too conservative with our tyre management this afternoon. The Prime turned out to be a stronger tyre than we'd anticipated, and we could have exploited it for longer and further in the race than we did.
"The data that we've accumulated this weekend will nonetheless provide us with a useful basis from which to move forwards, and we've learned some valuable lessons this weekend.
"Our focus now turns to our home race at Silverstone. We'll be doing our utmost to score a better result for the many British fans who'll be supporting Vodafone McLaren Mercedes on home soil."
Kimi Raikkonen equalled Michael Schumacher's record of consecutive points finishes as he endured a difficult Canadian Grand Prix. Romain Grosjean fought through the field to temporarily occupy a points placing, before an unexpected second stop dropped him to 13th place from his back of the grid start in Montreal.
Kimi falls to third place in the Drivers' Championship, with Fernando Alonso now in second, 12 points ahead of him. The team drops to fourth in the Constructors' Championship, with Mercedes 20 points ahead in third.
Kimi started from P11 with a new set of supersoft tyres, changing to new mediums on lap 22. Romain started from P22 on a new set of medium tyres, switching to new supersofts on lap 42 and new mediums on lap 53.
Today was Kimi's 35th consecutive race finish - 27th consecutive with Lotus F1 Team - and 24th consecutive Grand Prix points finish; the latter statistic meaning he equals Michael Schumacher's record.
Eric Boullier, Team Principal: "Today was certainly character building. On the plus side, Romain drove a measured and mature race through the field and should have finished in the points had we not had to make a second stop, which wasn't to our original plan. Kimi had a frustrating day, but still scored some points. We couldn't show the pace we wanted this weekend and will be all the more focused when we get to Silverstone as we are obviously very keen to get our championship challenge back on track."
Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "We clearly haven't been quick enough all weekend and we'll go back to Enstone to analyse why. We'll then react to those conclusions and hopefully get ourselves back up to where we want to be, which is fighting for podiums and wins. We have an aero test before Silverstone, a new bodywork package and other tweaks to come so there is plenty of potential to improve. We simply weren't quick enough this weekend."
Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "That was a race to the finish, in many respects. Every lap we were changing settings to try to give an extra advantage over the competition, particularly from the starting positions we were in. The change in weather conditions changed fuel consumption so we had to play with that, plus we had to control the temperatures throughout the race as we were in traffic every lap. Getting P9 for Kimi keeps the points going, but we hope we can return to the front at the next race in Silverstone."
Lewis scored his third podium finish in seven races with the team, finishing in third position. He completed a two-stop strategy with stops on laps 19 and 48, running option/prime/prime. Nico completed three pit-stops on laps 14, 31 and 57, running option/option/prime/prime. His third stop was precautionary after flat-spotting the right front and did not cost him track position. With a total of 25 points this afternoon, the team is now third in the Constructors' Championship.
Ross Brawn: It has been rare in recent seasons to have backmarkers become such a factor in a race as they were today. They played a decisive role in the final result but getting through traffic is one of the challenges that you have to tackle in Formula One. The car performed reasonably well but we still had some anxiety about the tyre performance in the high temperatures, so we were managing the situation carefully, particularly in the opening laps of the stints. Lewis drove a very strong race although it was a shame that he could not quite hold on to second position in the closing laps. However, that wasn't down to him but rather the fact that we still need to find a little more performance from our car to compete with Ferrari and Red Bull. Nico had a reasonably quiet race after a strong first stint and we will have to analyse if we could have made more of the car's performance today with him. We called him in for a third stop as a precaution, because he had flat-spotted badly the right-front tyre badly and we had nothing to gain or lose in terms of track position. Overall, a positive afternoon and another strong two-car finish that is important for our position in the Constructors' Championship.
Toto Wolff: Lewis and Nico did a great job on track today and it was nice to see Lewis on the podium again. He tried to hold off Fernando towards the end of the race but the Ferrari was just too quick today. Nico dropped back on the option tyre and our strategy didn't quite come to him this afternoon unfortunately. Looking ahead, we know that we need to keep bringing performance to the car and that Silverstone will be a bigger test for our tyre management. But it's the second race in a row that we have had both cars in the top five and that is building a good platform in the championship. Well done, too, to Sebastian and Red Bull today: they didn't put a foot wrong all afternoon.
The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal is a weekend to forget for the Sauber F1 Team. Neither driver finished the race. Nico Hulkenberg had contact with another competitor when lapping on lap 48, which left him with a flat tyre. Esteban Gutierrez locked up the front wheels and crashed into the barriers when exiting the pits after his second pit stop on lap 63.
Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "This is a weekend to forget. We knew this track wouldn't really suit our car. If you have weaknesses on the car in addition to a track that doesn't suit you, then it's twice as hard. We have a lot of work to do."
Tom McCullough, Head of Track Engineering: "The circuit's characteristics were going to make it a hard day for our car. Ultimately it was a double DNF, which is very disappointing. On the strategy side we attempted a one stop with Esteban and a two stop with Nico, which was the base strategy today. But ultimately the tyre degradation and wear were too high for Esteban, so we had to convert to a two stopper late in the race and unfortunately he had the incident exiting the pits. Looking forward to Silverstone, that's a track that should suit us better. We have to make sure to get the maximum out of our car."
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal: "It's great to see both our cars in the points at our 100th Grand Prix. It brings our tally to 51 points and strengthens our fifth position in the championship. Paul showed his fighting spirit with a remarkable drive to seventh with just one stop. The car had great pace and he looked after his medium compound tyres extremely well. I don't think anybody thought there were 56 laps in those tyres but he pulled it out of the bag. Adrian's afternoon was rather more eventful, but it was a disappointment to pick up the penalty in the closing laps so it's something we need to review. Overall I think we should be pleased with the outcome after a challenging weekend. The car remains competitive and we can hopefully carry our form into our local race at Silverstone at the end of the month."
The team will take positives from its performance in qualifying yesterday and will be working hard to improve the overall pace of the FW35 in time for its home race at the British Grand Prix.
Mike Coughlan, Technical Director: We knew Valtteri's grid position was not representative of our current pace, but we had hoped to be able to challenge for some points. The tyre degradation was quite high on the supersoft tyres though and we lost time in the first stint with both cars, which compromised our race. The medium tyre was working better which allowed us to do longer middle stints, but we weren't able to gain an advantage on anyone around us. Pastor was also compromised by a drive-through penalty but then pushed hard to close the gap, finishing 16th..Valtteri drove a solid race without making any mistakes, but ultimately the pace wasn't in the car to enable him to hold a top ten position today. We need to keep the momentum going following our qualifying performance to keep working hard to improve ahead of our home race at Silverstone.
Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 team support leader: There have been a lot of signs of improvement here this weekend so it's a shame that we could not convert them into points. All the same third on the grid yesterday was a good confidence booster for everyone and something to take forward to the team's home race in three weeks' time.
Franz Tost: "Jean-Eric's sixth place is a fantastic result for him, the team here in Canada and everyone who works so hard behind the scenes in Faenza and Bicester. This is our best result since Daniel finished seventh in China and it is Jev's best ever F1 finish position. Our car has been making steady progress over the last few races and that was confirmed yesterday, when despite the difficult conditions, we got both our cars into the top ten on the grid, even if Daniel then had to drop one place. Jev did a great job to keep his concentration on this difficult track, just as he did when he finished in the points in Monaco a fortnight ago and here, he also managed his tyres very well, which meant that once he had secured sixth place, he was able to keep it all the way to the flag. Daniel has had a tougher weekend and quite quickly in today's race, he suffered a lack of grip at the rear and found the car unstable over the kerbs. But he can fight back from this disappointment and I expect both our drivers to challenge for points again in Silverstone in two weeks time."
Cyril Abiteboul, Team Principal, Caterham F1 Team: "A very bad day for us, to say the least. Since the start of the weekend we had a feeling that the race would be difficult for a number of reasons. First, in terms of aerodynamic setup, we never managed to find the right compromise between top speed and downforce with the parts available. We spent a lot of time on this issue, maybe losing sight of other important areas like the tyres and to what extent the very different weather conditions we had on the earlier part of the weekend and on Sunday and how dramatically that would affect tyre behaviour in the race. This is an area we must particularly investigate as our direct competitors went for a different strategy that clearly gave them an edge.
"The high tyre degradation, especially on Giedo's car, meant that he received his first blue flag very early in the race and that contributed to the unfortunate events in the race that we never want to see as a team.
"Today's race in Canada put a rather radical stop to the positive trend we have seen since Bahrain, and we have to reverse that for Silverstone and come back fighting there. We will have new parts for the British Grand Prix and we're running another aero test next week, so we hopefully have the chance to make amends."
The Marussia F1 Team resumed their run of two-car finishes today as Jules Bianchi and Max Chilton brought their cars home in 17th and 19th positions respectively in a dry Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
The pair started the 70 lap race on the Pirelli PZero White Medium tyre and ran long into the race for nearly 40 laps, managing the tyre life exceptionally well before switching to the Red Supersoft until the flag.
In a race that has never favoured the Marussia F1 Team, this was the best combined result achieved in the four visits it has made to the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
John Booth, Team Principal: "It was quite a tough morning for the engineers who were working with less data than we would normally have collected on the dry tyres over the course of the weekend here. Determining our starting tyre and overall strategy was always going to be tough. The opening laps of the race didn't quite go as planned and we lost ground on the prime tyre, which suffered with warm-up. At this point it did feel like perhaps we hadn't started the race the right way, however both the drivers and engineers did a good job to hold their nerve and allow the much improved durability of the prime tyre to show over the option tyre. We never expected for this to be a particularly good race for us but we've been working hard on improving our tyre wear life and we reaped the benefit of this focus with our first stint of around 40 laps. That really enabled us to gain good track position on the Caterhams. With a total of only two pit stops for the Team today we knew that each had to count and the mechanics did a fantastic job to service both cars in a quick time. Really then it was about managing the wear life on the Supersoft tyre and getting both cars to the end of the race. Overall we can be pleased that we have made progress at what has traditionally been a less than favourable circuit for our cars. We leave Canada pleased and in good spirits as we prepare for our home Grand Prix in three weeks' time."
Vettel used a two-stop strategy to win the race and extend his championship lead, starting on the P Zero Red supersoft tyre, before switching to the P Zero White medium and completing the race with a final stint on this tyre.
Following wet conditions in qualifying, the race was entirely dry today. Even though they had a free choice of slick tyres with which to start the race, the top 10 all chose to begin on the supersoft. The softest tyre in Pirelli's Formula One range proved to be up to a second faster than the medium with a rapid warm-up time, making it a key element of Vettel's sprint strategy.
Force India's Paul Di Resta was the highest-placed driver to try something different, having started from 17th on the grid with the medium tyre. The Englishman stopped just once after 56 laps on the medium compound to finish seventh. The Lotus of Romain Grosjean and the two Marussias were the only other cars to begin the race on the harder compound.
Having gathered very little experience of running on the slick compounds up to the race due to the wet weather, the teams had to adopt a flexible approach to their strategy today, with little information on relevant wear and degradation rates. As expected, both wear and degradation rates remained low.
Paul Hembery: "The Canadian Grand Prix was a slight step into the unknown for everybody, with track temperatures considerably higher than they had been in qualifying yesterday. Canada is one of the most challenging circuits for the rear tyres due to high traction demands– particularly after it has rained previously in the weekend, because the moisture has the effect of washing away all the rubber that has been laid down before, which decreases grip levels further. Despite that, wear and degradation was under control for all the frontrunners and there was little of the graining that is a common feature of this race as well. Mercedes still seems to be suffering from high levels of degradation with Nico Rosberg being the only driver in the top 10 having to use a three-stop strategy. While two stops was clearly the way to go, Paul Di Resta drove an excellent race to show what was possible with a one-stopper, completing 56 laps on his first set of medium tyres."
Truth-O-Meter: We predicted a two-stopper: starting on the supersoft, changing to the supersoft again on lap 20 and then finally to the medium on lap 40. This was not quite the strategy that Vettel followed today, with his first stop for the medium on lap 16 and his second on lap 49.
