Cyril Dumont, Renault: "Again, an incredible race today and it was a good showing from both drivers. It was a shame that Mark had a KERS issue during the race as we could have maybe got a one-two again this weekend. Renault has something to celebrate again today, as we got our 150th win after achieving our 200th pole at the last race. I would like to congratulate everyone from Renault and Viry-Chatillon of course and from Mecachrome, as from nearly 500 races we have won 150, which is a strong rate. A big thank you and congratulations to everyone involved"

"We found it difficult to coax sufficient pace out of the Options, but our car was the fastest in the field on the Primes. The trouble was, by the time we were running on Primes, the gap to the cars ahead was a bit too large. Even so, Lewis pushed as hard as he possibly could in the closing stages, carving chunks out of the gap between him and Mark ahead, and, if the race had been just a few laps longer, I'm certain he'd have fancied his chances of getting past.

"Jenson, too, drove superbly, in difficult conditions, losing quite a bit of time while stuck behind Romain, but he made as rapid progress as Lewis did once he'd got onto Primes. Indeed, he drove the fastest lap of the race on the very last lap. It was McLaren's 150th fastest lap in world championship grand prix racing, incidentally.

"Finally, here's another stat for the train-spotters out there: today, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes tied Ferrari's all-time record of 55 consecutive world championship grands prix in the points. We started that run in Australia in 2010, which race Jenson won for us of course; indeed, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes has scored points in every single grand prix since Jenson joined our team.

"In Abu Dhabi, in a week's time, we'll be seeking to establish a new benchmark: 56 consecutive world championship grands prix in the points. In fact, of course, we'll be aiming to do a bit more than that: there are three grands prix still to run this season, and you can be well sure that everyone at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes will be doing his or her level best to win as many of them as we possibly can."

Stefano Domenicali: What a race that was from Fernando, simply amazing! Yesterday, he'd said he would tackle this race like a sixty lap qualifying session and he was true to his word: on the attack from start to finish, the only one from the top ten on the grid to make up places by the end. This second place is all down to his talent, to his aggressive approach and the fact he never wants to give up, backed up by a team that is doing the maximum to give him a car that is worthy of him. Sure, we leave India with a bigger gap to the leader of the Drivers' championship than when we got here, but this race should not leave those who are ahead in a calm and relaxed mood. Fernando and Ferrari will not slacken their efforts by a centimetre, right to the end of this long season. Felipe drove a good race, attacking in the first stint, but then on the defensive in the second, partly due to some limitations that occurred in the management of the fuel. In any case, his sixth place is very valuable in light of the Constructors' classification, in which we have managed to increase our lead over the third placed team, even if the leaders have pulled even further away. There are three more finals to go, up against very strong opponents, but they are not unbeatable. I recall that, in 1982, the Italian football team was definitely not the strongest but went on to win that year's World Cup. We believe in our chances and I'm sure that so do all our fans!

Pat Fry: A great result considering our grid positions. Fernando produced yet another amazing performance in what has been an incredible season for him: finishing second having started fifth in a race where overtaking moves are a rare commodity, despite the double DRS zone is really an encouraging sign. Fernando made the most of the opening laps to be able to dispense with the two McLarens and then he set off in pursuit of the Red Bulls, getting past one of them. We made the most of our better top speed and the choice in terms of gear ratios. At the start, we could have opted for a two stop strategy, but as the race evolved we were able to make just one while, at least with Fernando, still being able to push from start to finish. Unfortunately, Felipe was unable to do the same because in the second part of the race, he had to manage his fuel consumption, which prevented him from getting the most out of the car. All the same, this was a positive weekend for him and he brought home points that are important for the Constructors' championship. We must improve the performance of our car in qualifying and that's why we are working flat out to bring some updates to every race from now to the end of the season. If we manage to get our drivers further up the starting grid, then we can put Red Bull under pressure: at the moment, Sebastian Vettel is flying away too easily, leading from the start. We know we can count on a really great driver and, alongside him, we will fight right to the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Nico completed a one-stop strategy, running soft then hard tyres, and made his pit stop on lap 27. Michael suffered a first lap right-rear puncture after contact with another car at the first corner. He made two stops on laps one and 33, starting the race on the hard tyre, then running two sets of soft tyres.

Ross Brawn: We are racing in a closely-matched field this season, where a few tenths of a second in lap time make a significant difference to your position. At the moment, we are on the wrong end of those precious tenths and that once again left us outside the points this afternoon. Nico made his one-stop strategy work well, looking after his tyres so that he still had reasonable speed at the end of both stints, but otherwise he had a relatively quiet race. As for Michael, the contact at the first corner made it an uphill battle for him from turn two onwards, and left him at the back of the field. However, by running two stints on the option tyre, he was able to show respectable speed at some points of the race. We brought his car in before the end of the race as a precaution after we became aware of some gearbox concerns.

Norbert Haug: Michael suffered contact on the opening lap, which caused a puncture and put him to the back of the field after his pit stop. He retired the car with a gearbox issue five laps before the finish. As for Nico, his car didn't have the speed to score points after starting from 10th position. We have a lot of work to do and everybody in the team is well aware of it.

Kimi started on soft tyres, pitting on lap 27 for a set of new hards. Romain started on hard tyres, pitting on lap 36 for a set of new softs.

Eric Boullier, Team Principal: "Like every race, qualifying is obviously the key to get good points so yesterday's performance defined our race. Unfortunately Kimi was unable to overtake Felipe and stayed stuck behind. I think we had the pace to be a little bit better and get nearer the front. We clearly need to work on qualifying and make sure we do a better job. We know our car is strong in the race and I think both drivers today did the job we were expecting. The team did a great job on the pit stop strategy so we cannot complain. Let's just say we're frustrated that we didn't do a little bit better."

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "Both drivers reported that their cars were excellent during the race, which was good. The downside was that Kimi spent the whole race looking at the back of Massa's car and Romain was held up for around four laps whilst Michael (Schumacher) received blue flags ahead of him. This circuit is pretty difficult to overtake on; even though there's a very long straight, the DRS zone isn't actually that long. It was clear we were definitely faster than the cars ahead, just not sufficiently faster to overtake."

Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "A double points finish is a good result today. We worked very hard with the team to optimise the Coanda exhaust system and we have made some good progress in this area. In this respect it's been a very positive weekend and we hope to build on this momentum in a week's time in Abu Dhabi."

Dr Vijay Mallya, Team Principal & Managing Director: "I'm delighted to see Sahara Force India score points at our home race - for the second year in a row. After qualifying we knew we had a big task ahead of us, but Nico rose to the challenge and raced well to finish in eighth place. It's a very satisfying result and it means we have scored points in the last six races - that's every race since the summer break. These are important points for our fight in the constructors' championship and we will continue to push very hard in the remaining three races. Paul also battled hard in the race, moving up four places, but it was difficult for him to challenge for points in the end. Overall it's been another great Indian Grand Prix. The circuit is a magnificent venue for motor racing and the Buddh International Circuit has once again delivered a fantastic event which we have all enjoyed immensely."

Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "A disappointing race. Kamui fought hard but his grid position was too much of a handicap. Sergio made a good start but then had unexpected problems with his front left tyre. After an early pit stop he had a puncture and was forced to stop because the car felt strange. Our goal to fight for fifth position in the constructors' championship will now be more difficult to achieve."

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "Sergio's speed was as expected, but then he had to stop early because the front left tyre had blisters and we had to change to a two stop strategy. He went out on another set of soft tyres, but then had contact with Daniel Ricciardo's car and had a puncture. After his second pit stop he reported problems with the rear of the car and we decided to retire him. Kamui had to start too far behind and, although he had better pace than Daniel, he was not able to overtake him and lost too much time in the first part of the race. Kamui was not able to recover from that."

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: We are pleased to see that the race pace is strong once more with Bruno coming home in tenth even though our race was ultimately compromised with traffic and Pastor's race effectively finished when he picked up a rear puncture when Kobayashi made contact with him in Turn 5 on lap 31.

Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 team support leader: Tenth position for Bruno is at least one point, but everyone expected more from the race. It was a shame that Pastor lost some time with the puncture as the car has been quick this weekend. We'll hope to get two cars in the points in Abu Dhabi.

Despite the fact that Karthikeyan and de la Rosa got off to good starts, the Spanish driver moving up to seventeenth, the problem was detected on the third lap and both drivers had to give away ground to control the temperature of the brakes and complete the 60 laps. Karthikeyan, with a very good race pace on the hard tyres, finished in 21st whilst de la Rosa's brakes failed with fifteen laps to go and was unable to finish the race.

Luis Perez-Sala, Team Principal: "It was a tough race, especially at the beginning, because of the overheating of the brakes. Something which we weren't expecting to have at this circuit. From the start we were running to the limit temperature-wise and we had to reduce our pace a bit. We improved from then on and maintained our pace but towards the end Pedro had a brake failure and was unable to finish. Narain also had a complicated race but at least was able to finish in front of his home fans and that's the most positive thing."

Unable to hold off the advancing KERS-powered competition, he was forced to acquiesce, but he kept in touch with them for the whole race, notwithstanding the fact that the Team, like many others today, experienced very high fuel consumption which prevented both drivers from pushing to the max. Charles delivered some impressive sector and lap times throughout the race. In S2 he was consistently quicker than the cars ahead and competitive in S3, further demonstrating how adept the Team have become at improving overall lap time to compensate for the KERS deficit presented by the long straights of the last two races.

Timo had a tough race, which was compromised with effect from the first corner incident. He struggled with the tyres later in the first stint because of this and had to contend with too many blue flags to be able to recover.

John Booth, Team Principal: "A fantastic job by Charles today to reverse his fortunes following a frustrating qualifying result. He had the measure of all the cars affected by the first corner incident and he was able to get ahead of Petrov and hold a gap to him for quite some time. Unfortunately we were 'out-KERS'd' and Charles was unable to hold station for long. Nonetheless, once Petrov got past, Charles kept pace with the Caterhams and were it not for the last few blue flags he would have finished within 5.0s of Heikki. As was the case with a few other cars today, we were caught out by increased fuel consumption in the race and this did limit our ability to push.

"Timo had a less than optimum day sadly. The first corner incident hurt his race significantly and as a consequence he was stuck behind the HRTs for quite a while. He did a good job to clear them as soon as possible, however the time spent trying to pass them didn't help his first stint tyres as the race progressed, given that we were running to a one-stop strategy. We also had an issue with the rear jack in his pitstop and unfortunately this compromised him further; when he rejoined the track he went straight into a significant blue flag spell. We haven't had a perfect weekend by any means and yet we take some comfort from the fact that we have still been able to achieve our objective of staying in touch with the competition. It's another back-to-back situation now and as we head to the Middle East our focus will be firmly on achieving a more typically slick weekend so we can reveal more of our true potential versus the cars ahead."

Vettel, along with the rest of the top 10 qualifiers, started on the P Zero Yellow soft tyres before switching to the P Zero Silver hard tyre on lap 33 in a one-stop strategy, without losing the lead. Despite the challenging track layout in India, with an ambient temperature of 30 degrees centigrade, this proved to be the most popular strategy, which was adopted by all the finishers. Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso - who finished second on the same strategy, pitting four laps earlier - claimed the runner-up spot with 10 laps to go. Red Bull's Mark Webber was third, four seconds behind.

Lotus driver Romain Grosjean was the highest-placed driver on the grid to start on the P Zero Silver hard tyres, in 11th place, before moving onto the soft tyre on lap 36. The decision paid off, as Grosjean made up two places from his grid slot to finish ninth. An identical starting strategy was adopted by Mercedes driver Michael Schumacher, Toro Rosso's Daniel Ricciardo, and Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.

The other Sauber of Sergio Perez stopped twice, but he was forced to retire as a consequence of contact with a Toro Rosso. The incident caused a puncture: exactly as a similar coming together did for Schumacher on the opening lap and for Pastor Maldonado (Williams) on lap 31, all caused by contact with other competitors, with sharp front wing endplates slicing the sidewalls of the tyre. Consequently, Perez made his second stop early, planning on running his final set of hard tyres for nearly 40 laps. However, he was subsequently forced to retire.

McLaren driver Jenson Button completed the longest final stint on the hard tyre, lasting 35 laps, which took him to fifth at the finish. Both Grosjean and Kobayashi completed the longest first stint on the hard tyre, pitting both on lap 36. The Japanese driver eventually finished 14th on the soft tyre, having started from 17th on the grid.

Paul Hembery: "Both the hard and the soft tyres lasted extremely well in India, with low levels of degradation enabling the drivers to push at their hardest from start to finish on this fantastic circuit. Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull gave us a master class in tyre management and strategy, making all the right calls from start to finish. Grosjean and Kobayashi tried a different strategy, with a long first stint on the hard tyre, which also paid off, showing how tyre strategy can make a difference even for drivers who start outside the top 10 of the grid. Last year, most of the top runners stopped twice: this year only one stop was necessary despite the fact that our compounds have actually become softer across the board. Congratulations also to Ferrari and Fernando Alonso, who showed excellent race pace and straight-line speed to go from fifth to second, which promises a thrilling conclusion to the championship. Now we head straight to Abu Dhabi, which will constitute a completely different challenge."