Podium Interviews - Conducted by Maria Serrat

Well, Nico, first win here in Barcelona and first win of the season.
Nico Rosberg: It was a prefect weekend. Great to be on pole and great to win the race like this. Very, very happy. Also thanks to the team, the car has been awesome, all weekend perfect, so yeah, really great.

You looked very strong, especially strong in the first stint and at the start, where you held onto [the lead].
NR: Yeah, finally I got a great start as well. It's been a while coming but today it worked out really well.

Congratulations. Lewis, the biggest chance was at the start, what happened there?
Lewis Hamilton: I just clearly got a bad start. I had lots of wheelspin. But as Nico said, it was a good race, he did a fantastic job and I'm grateful that I could get back up to the podium for the team.

You're on the podium, your 75th podium, and also looking at the championship you're still leading the championship.
LH: Yeah, but there's a long, long way to go. This was a difficult weekend for me, I'll definitely take it… looking forward to Monaco. It's going to be a very tough race for sure but I'm looking forward to it.

Congratulations. Moving on to third. Sebastian, once again on the podium this season. Was the second position and option?
Sebastian Vettel: I think it was. Obviously we were hanging in there pretty well. We had a good start, we were able to get past Lewis and then we did the right thing, covering him at the first stop. But then unfortunately they switched to a three-stop and they were just too quick. So we couldn't really keep up with the pace they had today, third is the best we could do and very happy. The car is great and it's great to see the fans, all the Ferrari flags, so very happy.

You didn't mirror their strategy and also you were complaining a little bit about traffic. Do you think that maybe a three-stopper would have given you a chance?
SV: I think as a racing driver you always complain about something, especially if you're German! I think we tried everything we could. Obviously going through traffic is never easy but in the end it's the same for all of us - sometimes you're a bit luckier and other times you lose a little bit more.

Thanks and congratulations. Nico, last question for yourself. Now you're bouncing back. Turning point here in Barcelona and we're going to Monaco. Home race, pole last year and victory last year.
NR: Yeah, but I'm just enjoying the day today, you know. Winning here in Barcelona was great and just enjoy that with the team tonight and then we look towards the next race.

Press Conference

Nico, many congratulations on this first victory of 2015 and just tell us what this win means to you really and where you go from here?
NR: Just a fantastic weekend. Everything worked out on Saturday and Sunday. It all came together. I'm very happy and that's it.

Closing in a bit on the points?
NR: Yeah, of course, seven points. At one point I thought maybe, who knows, maybe Sebastian can keep Lewis behind, which on the one side isn't good for the team, but in terms of my points… it's always a compromise, for my points that would have been better. But that's the way it is. Seven points is better than nothing and a fantastic team result today to be first and second, especially after the two-and-a half-week break. Everybody brought upgrades here but still we're dominating in such a way and that's fantastic to see and more than at the last race.

Lewis, coming to you, a lot of talking points from your afternoon. Essentially you ended up where you started but the work you had to put in to get back to that second place was pretty phenomenal. Tell us about your race, your start and then the decision to switch to a three-stop strategy.
LH: Yeah, obviously I had quite a poor start. It's been a long time since I've had such a poor start. I tried my best to recover - I nearly dropped back to fourth at the start so I was very fortunate to keep third - and then it was just trying to fight… Unfortunately, this track isn't very good for overtaking. Actually it's the worst for overtaking. It's impossible to follow here, which is a shame. I don't know how it was further back but for the guys at the front it's just… it doesn't matter what you do you cannot get close enough even with the DRS, which is a shame. Nonetheless, I did everything I could behind Sebastian and did enough, I think, in the first stint but then I had a very long pit stop and then had to kind of do it all again. But fortunately towards the end it was enough to get it done on a three-stopper, I was able to get by. Yeah, if I was behind him in traffic I wouldn't have got past. I'm grateful I could gain those points for the team and it's kind of damage limitation for me, so it's not bad.

Very well done. Coming to you Sebastian, obviously the good: you're on the podium again. The bad: the 45-second margin back to the race winner, which I'm sure you didn't probably expect through here. Did you think it was on to keep Lewis behind you or did you feel that once he started to gain pace on those harder tyres that it was getting away from you?
SV: To be honest I thought it would be tricky to keep him behind because they were a fair amount quicker, as we saw, at the end of the race. Obviously we were a bit lucky with the first pit stop - Lewis had a problem - so we were able to stay ahead, I think we reacted well and we did everything we could. Then obviously they decided to pit very early, go for a three-stop. I think it was our best chance to stay out, which is what we did. Unfortunately then I came out a bit in traffic after the second stop and lost maybe a couple of second, maybe two or three seconds, which would have been maybe just enough to stay in front but arguably with the speed they had you have to be fair and accept that they deserved to finish in front of us today, so well done to both of them. For us I'm pretty confident we will get closer again pretty soon, so hopefully in two weeks' time it's a different picture. I think we have done a step forward as a team in terms of performance. Obviously it doesn't really show here but I'm quite confident that in the next couple of race we'll be stepping up our game again and I'm looking forward to that.