Thierry Salvi, Renault: "It was a tight race for us as we were trying to stay with the middle group all race. We were simply not able to fight at the right level, so a lot of work has to be done to extract the maximum from our power unit. Dan did a good job all race and was able to move up after the safety car: he was quite impressive. Seb struggled more, especially at the end where he was missing some top speed to stay with Daniel. We still have a lot to optimize, but the progress and steps will be big and we will learn even more during the test session in the coming days. This will help us to come back stronger and to give our drivers the power unit they need to fight at the front."

Lewis claimed his 24th Formula One career victory and his third for Mercedes AMG Petronas today. Nico claimed his 14th Formula One career podium, his 12th for the team, on what marked his 150th Grand Prix start. A margin of just 1.085 secs separated the pair at the flag, with just 0.088 secs between their respective fastest laps. Lewis stopped for soft tyres on lap 19, switching to medium tyres under safety car conditions on lap 41. Nico stopped for medium tyres on lap 21, pitting again under the safety car on lap 41 for soft tyres. Mercedes-Benz powered cars occupied all three podium places and six of the top 10 positions.

Toto Wolff: It has been a fantastic weekend for the team from start to finish. To have led every session with both cars is a real achievement and we can be very proud of the combined effort of our staff at Brackley, Brixworth and Stuttgart. The race was quite simply brilliant to watch, with battles throughout the field. Lewis and Nico drove with a great deal of maturity and respect for both each other and the team but still put on a great show. What we saw today was two drivers at the peak of their abilities fighting fair and square for victory. This is what we go racing for and it was a strong advert for the sport: in particular under these new regulations. With the result last week in Malaysia mirrored here tonight, we now find ourselves in a strong position in both Championships. We are under no illusions, however, that this is a given. We must take these moments and use them as inspiration in the on-going push to achieve our goals.

Paddy Lowe: Another exceptional and well-deserved result for the team today after what has been a flawless weekend from everyone involved. From the very first laps in practice the car looked competitive and we didn't miss a beat throughout. From the pit wall, the race was fascinating to watch. While there were undoubtedly some tense moments, we knew that both drivers would be sensible enough to bring the cars home: although it was worth throwing in a little reminder just to be sure! All credit to the teams at Brackley, Brixworth and Stuttgart for what they have achieved already this season. A particular note must go to the team at Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, with their Power Units taking all three podium places and six of the top 10 positions. It's fantastic to show the world that not only can amazing technology be produced within this exciting new 'Efficiency Formula' but that racing is alive and well within our sport. We now have a two-day test here in Bahrain where we will be looking to build on our current performance and maintain this momentum into the next races. For now, though, we can enjoy what has been a highly successful few weeks for the team.

Pat Fry: "Today, we could not have asked more of our car and drivers, because here, our most limiting factor was a lack of top speed. That meant we had to run a defensive race and even if in the middle sector, the one with the most corners, the F14 T was competitive, it was not enough to allow Fernando and Kimi to attack our rivals. In Maranello, we are working on solutions to ensure better power delivery and better driveability. We are also trying to improve the efficiency of the car on the aerodynamic front. The data we acquired in today's race will provide a baseline for the major checking programme we have planned for the test, right here at Sakhir on Tuesday and Wednesday."

Romain started from sixteenth position on new soft tyres, changing to scrubbed soft tyres on lap 13, new medium tyres on lap 28 and scrubbed soft tyres on lap 37. Pastor started from seventeenth position on new soft tyres, changing to new soft tyres on lap 19, new medium tyres on lap 39 then scrubbed softs on lap 40. He served a ten-second stop and go penalty on lap 47.

Federico Gastaldi, Deputy Team Principal: "Both drivers kept their heads down and kept pushing today. It's clear we still have to unlock a lot of pace from this car, but we were much better with reliability here and our relative pace has improved too. It was good to see both cars at the finish of the race as this is what we need to improve the car and make it faster."

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "We're happy to get both cars to the chequered flag as we're still very much learning this car and the data collected today will be invaluable for the coming week's test. Obviously, we're disappointed that we weren't fighting for points however we have made another step closer to the cars ahead of us. We'll keep chipping away and making performance gains so we can get where we want to be."

Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "Getting two cars to the finish was the minimum aim this weekend, but we would have liked to be closer, if not inside, the top ten. Realistically our starting positions made this very difficult but we tried to make up places with one fewer stop than the competition. Both drivers did well with the fuel management to be able to use small boosts when necessary and move up the field, but the performance is still a way off where we want. We've got the test next week to look into everything in more detail."

Eric Boullier, Racing Director: "Well, it goes without saying that we're leaving Bahrain bitterly disappointed. We didn't have the fastest car this weekend, we know that, but, had our cars not both been afflicted with clutch problems towards the end of the race, triggering their retirements, at least we'd have been leaving with some more championship points on the scoreboard.

"In fact, had Jenson's car run reliably to the flag, there's every chance that he'd have been fighting for fifth, fourth or potentially even third place. Granted, minor placings aren't what McLaren is all about - on the contrary we exist to win - but a third-, fourth- or fifth-place finish would have been extremely welcome in terms of our achieving what we'd set out to accomplish in these early-in-the-season fly-away races: namely, steadily pick up championship points while we develop our car's performance envelope for the beginning of the European season in Barcelona.

"Anyway, from here we'll go back to Woking, where we'll work as hard as we possibly can to improve our cars for Shanghai, where we'll be hoping to put up a significantly better showing than we did here in Sakhir this evening."

Vijay Mallya, Team Principal and Managing Director: "Today is one of the greatest days in the history of our team. It's been a long time coming, but it's very satisfying to see Sahara Force India back on the podium after so many near misses in recent years. We have a great driver line-up and today we saw both Checo and Nico at their best as they battled for a place on the podium. Without the safety car our two-stop strategies would have been much more comfortable because we faced a strong assault from the Red Bulls in the closing stages. Nico did a fantastic job to keep them back for so long and hold on to fifth place. It gave Checo the breathing space he needed to secure third place. So I'm extremely proud of everyone in the team and congratulate all of them on this achievement. 2014 is a new chance and we have shown we're moving forward in Australia, Malaysia and here. I couldn't be happier."

Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "Let's start with the positives: We are pleased that Esteban is fine after his spectacular accident. Generally, it was a weekend to forget. We knew before that on this track our limitations with the powertrain would be significant. This was confirmed during the race. Nevertheless, losing both cars through accidents is very disappointing. In both cases, it was not the fault of our drivers. We will now forget this weekend and focus on the upcoming race in China, where we expect some improvements."

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "We are relieved that Esteban is uninjured. After Adrian's accident, we changed his front nose and sent him back into the race. However, we noticed that the damage to his car resulted in a massive degradation of the performance. Therefore we decided to retire him from the race. With regards to the performance, we were in a similar situation as before. On this track it was obvious that one of the three manufacturers had a huge advantage regarding the powertrain. This also resulted in an advantage for the respective customer teams. For the race in China we will have updates for the car and will try to improve."

Ricardo Penteado (Renault Sport F1 track support leader): "Daniil again did a great job to bring the car home in P11. He did very well with the energy management and being on the limit of both fuel and state of charge in the battery. During the safety car in particular he did well to save some fuel so we could really push straight after. JEV had a tougher race after the contact early on. Eventually the team decided to retire as there was just too much performance loss from the car as a result. We just missed the points this race but there is not much between us and the top ten so we'll see what we can do in China."

Rob Smedley, Head of Vehicle Performance: Overall I am extremely happy. We finished the weekend with both cars in the points, and good points too. To start in third and finish in eighth for Valtteri is a bit frustrating, but that's racing and we have to accept that. There are many positives still to take, one thing we do need is a little bit more race pace. The team worked very well together from strategy to pitstops, the change over the last twelve months has been very encouraging. There is still a lot of work to do but I'm very impressed with the quality of people here.

There were contrasting fortunes between Max and his team-mate Jules Bianchi however. The luck that the Frenchman so badly needed evaded him once again and he could achieve no more than 16th place after nursing a damaged car for much of the race following a 13th lap coming-together with Adrian Sutil.

There was a fabulous sense of occasion for the 10th anniversary of the Bahrain Grand Prix as the Bahrain International Circuit hosted its first night race under an impressive new floodlight system. A fantastic build-up gave way to a spectacular 57-lap show that was full of action and close racing, in which Max was able to enjoy a good fight with the Caterhams and one in which he ultimately triumphed.

John Booth, Team Principal: "After a disappointing outing in Malaysia last weekend, where unfortunately we allowed 10th place in the Constructors' Championship to slip through our grasp, it's fantastic to regain the position again so quickly. Our performance today was no accident; it was the product of a lot of hard work by the factory in a very short space of time, coupled with the efforts of the trackside crew. Max had a tough start to the race and was stuck behind Ericsson for several laps but we reoptimised his ERS, which enabled him to overtake the Caterham. As a result of Kobayashi emerging just in front of Max after his second pitstop, at this point we opted to switch Max to a two-stop strategy to run to the end. The late safety car enabled us to put Max onto a fresh set of option tyres and he was able to pass Kobayashi at the restart. From there he comfortably pulled away and was able to stay in front of Maldonado, whilst also managing his fuel to the end of the race. Jules enjoyed a fantastic start to the race and after his first pitstop he was in a good battle with the Sauber of Sutil in which he was clearly quicker and trying to overtake. What happened next was unfortunate and that was effectively the end of Jules' ability to race, however the fact that he was able to make it to the chequered flag gives him his first classified finish and provides the Team with more valuable data. We've mad e a lot of progress this weekend and the test will give us the chance to improve the car further."

Claudio Albertini, Head of Customer Teams Power Unit Operations, Scuderia Ferrari: "All in all a good weekend, which saw the Marussia team get back the tenth place in the Constructors Championship thanks to the thirteenth place earned by Max. Even Jules has finally managed to get the first finish of the season, although his race was ruined by the accident with Sutil. It was a shame, because there was the potential for an even better result. From a reliability standpoint, this Grand Prix marked a new step forward because we were able to allow Marussia to work with greater continuity. Progress has also been made on the research of the best performance of the power unit, reflecting the growing level of integration between the two working groups. In this regard, there will be two very useful days of tests that await us next week here at Sakhir, when it will be possible to explore some issues and try to prepare together in the best way in the next few races."

After the restart, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton led on the medium tyre from his team mate Nico Rosberg, who used a different two-stop strategy to finish the race on the faster soft tyre. Despite having a tyre that was theoretically slower, Hamilton was able to hold off Rosberg - who set the fastest lap - to take back-to-back victories. Similar battles took place throughout the top 10, with drivers on faster compounds battling against those in front on slower tyres, depending on the strategy they had selected.

However, a gap of more than a second between the P Zero White medium and P Zero Yellow soft tyre in the heat of the day was reduced considerably in the cooler conditions of the evening, as track temperatures dropped by three degrees during the 57-lap race.

The top six all adopted a two-stop strategy (some helped by the safety car) with the Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel using different tactics to finish fourth and sixth from 13th and 10th on the grid respectively. Vettel was one of just two drivers to start the race on the medium tyre.

From Tuesday, the teams will embark on the first in-season test of the year. Under the 2014 regulations, each team must dedicate one of their in-season test days to tyre testing for Pirelli. On Tuesday, Caterham will test for Pirelli, followed by Mercedes and Williams on Wednesday.

Paul Hembery: "We've seen some fantastic wheel-to-wheel racing in Bahrain, in which tyre strategy and pace management played a definite part. With track temperatures falling, some teams altered their strategy from three to two stops. When you have a safety car close to the end and drivers on a wide variety of different tyres, it always guarantees an exciting finish. Now we start preparing for the first in-season test of the year. Having the opportunity to test for the future with the current generation of cars is something we certainly welcome, so we look forward to seeing what we can get out of it."