Cyril Dumont, Renault: "We changed the alternator on Sebastian's car yesterday, but unfortunately we had the same failure in today's race. We are still looking into why this happened, but we do know that even though the alternator was being operated entirely within the prescribed range, the part itself overheated and shut off the power supply. We have to apologise to Red Bull Racing as clearly this has hurt us in the Championship. We have no option, but to sort it out and it will still be a priority before Singapore."

"We should have scored a one-two finish, but Jenson was deprived of an easy second place by a fuel system problem. That's frustrating for him and frustrating for us, but the important thing is that our car is a winner. We've now won three grands prix in a row, and both our drivers are on top form.

"Lewis has now closed up to second place in the drivers' world championship, with seven grands prix still to run. It was his third victory of the season, and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes' fifth. The momentum is with us, and the drivers' world championship crown is well within Lewis's grasp. In the constructors' championship, too, we're in good shape.

"Winning is what Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is all about. In Singapore in two weeks' time, we're planning to do some more of it."

Stefano Domenicali: We often say it on Saturday after qualifying: the points are only given out on Sunday afternoon and today we saw that confirmed yet again. There was another confirmation, if indeed one was needed, that reliability has to be the absolute priority. After all the problems we had over this weekend, for us to be able to leave Monza with Fernando increasing his lead in the Drivers' championship, bringing it back to the level it had reached after Hungary and with enough points to consider the Constructors' championship open again, is very important for us. Fernando produced a great drive, as did Felipe. Sure, the regret relating to the pole that was within our grasp is still present, because starting from the first row rather than the fifth, the Spanish driver could have definitely been in the fight for the victory. Felipe proved to everyone, not to us, because we knew already, that he is a driver who can fight for the very top spot and that at Ferrari, we work as a team, united in our efforts to reach the targets we set ourselves. The European part of the Formula 1 season has come to a close and now the final leg begins, with seven races in a little over two months. Those seven will be very tough for everyone and all of us, back in Maranello and at the race tracks, will tackle them doing our very best, paying great attention to every little detail. That's the only way we will be able to achieve our goals, which, I repeat, are within our capabilities.

Pat Fry: Saying this has been an intense weekend would be something of a euphemism. We had various reliability problems on the cars in the past days and today we had one with the garage equipment which meant we were practically in the dark, in that we had neither telemetry nor television pictures on the pit wall, nor the link to the remote garage at Maranello, at what was a one of the crucial phases of the race, in other words as we were coming up to the pit stops. We had a bit of a communication problem and it was rather like taking a step back in time to the days when we didn't have all this equipment available: at one point we had to make do with the telephone to speak to Maranello and decide if it was the right time for the pit stop! We were able to manage the situation, but believe me, it was not a walk in the park. Then there was the incident when Fernando went off the track in his duel with Vettel: once the telemetry was working again, we spotted there was something not quite right at the rear, so in the final laps, we asked him to be cautious, avoiding the kerbs. When the car was in parc ferme, I have to say we could see the damage was quite bad, also affecting the aerodynamics. From a technical point of view, this afternoon, the tyre degradation was greater than we had expected going into the race: we must analyse the data carefully to understand why. We managed to recover almost completely from the situation we were in after yesterday's problems, but looking at the weekend as a whole, I have to say what happened over these days should ring some alarm bells for all of us: we have to do the maximum in every area if we want to win.

Michael completed a two-stop strategy, running option/prime/prime, and stopping on laps 15 and 37. Nico also stopped twice today, running option/prime/prime, and stopping on laps 14 and 38. Fastest lap for Nico, on the final lap, was the fourth of his career and second of the season. Sixth win in 13 races for Mercedes-Benz power, and third in a row, with four engines in the top ten.

Ross Brawn: Both our drivers put in strong, aggressive and controlled performances today. We knew that a one-stop strategy was not feasible for us this afternoon, so we went into the race planning to make two stops and knew the drivers would have to race hard to make it work against other cars who were one-stopping. The disappointment today was that both drivers really struggled on their first set of tyres - perhaps because of how we used them in qualifying, running more than one timed lap in Q3, or perhaps another factor, which is something we will have to analyse. We lost all our time in this phase of the race but, thereafter, the performance of both cars looked good. Nico's fastest lap shows that our level of performance today was reasonable and both he and Michael were consistently among the fastest in the second half of the race. Sixth and seventh places are far from perfect but we can be positive about an exciting race, running the right strategy for our current situation and two great drives from Michael and Nico.

Norbert Haug: Fighting drives from Michael and Nico this afternoon with lots of nice overtaking moves. We didn't have great pace in the opening stint, running the option tyres we had used in qualifying like everybody in the top ten, but it looked much better after the first stops. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and McLaren Mercedes on three wins in a row - two for Lewis, one for Jenson Button. Our Mercedes engine has taken six wins from 13 races this season, including one for our Silver Arrows team in China. After scoring the most points of any engine in 2009, 2010 and 2011, this confirms the Mercedes V8 as the most successful power plant so far in 2012 as well.

Kimi started on used medium compound Pirelli tyres, stopping on lap 17 for new hards. Jerome started on new hard compound tyres, stopping on lap 27 for new mediums. Jerome's stop at 2.44 seconds was the team's fastest-ever race pit stop.

Eric Boullier, Team Principal: "From this weekend I don't think we could have expected better. The key to a good championship position at the end of the season is always scoring points, even when it is a difficult weekend. Kimi delivered exactly as we wanted from him today and moving to third in the standings is a just reward. We are still in contact with those ahead of us in both Championships with seven races to go. Jerome did an amazing job after being thrown in at the deep end. Without his KERS issue I'm pretty sure he could have achieved a points finish. We are optimistic that from Singapore onwards we will be much more competitive due to the circuit layout and updates we have coming, meaning we will be able to score more points in every race."

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "We weren't looking forward to coming to Monza as it doesn't play to the strengths of our car so we're very happy to come away with fifth place from Kimi. He drove exceptionally well at a circuit where we knew we weren't going to be super competitive. It's fantastic that he has moved up into third place in the Drivers' Championship, and is now just one point off second. Jerome had one arm tied behind his back with a KERS failure very early in the race and KERS is worth a significant amount of time here. He did a very credible job despite this, and his pace on the medium compound tyre in the second part of the race was pretty good. We now move to a circuit which we feel should really suit our car so we're looking forward to the fly-aways."

Ricardo Penteado, Renault Sport F1 Team Support Leader: "A very difficult race for us. Kimi did a fantastic job to finish in fifth ; he was flat out for the entire race. Jerome finished his first race for the team, also performing well, despite having a KERS problem early on. We have to look at both of these issues and improve for Singapore."

The Sauber F1 Team equalled its best result of the season, which was a total of 20 points achieved at the German round of the championship. In addition to Sergio's 18 points, his team mate, Kamui Kobayashi, contributed two points by coming ninth at the legendary high speed circuit in the Royal Park. After the end of the European season, the Sauber F1 Team now has exactly 100 points to its tally and remains sixth in the 2012 FIA Formula One Constructors' Championship with seven races to go. Sergio is still ninth in the drivers' championship, while Kamui remains 12th.

Monisha Kaltenborn, CEO: "What a day and what a result! I have to say this comes as somewhat of a surprise on a track which we thought would be quite challenging for our car. But once again we proved our strong race performance. For quite some time Sergio was the fastest driver out there. It's fantastic that the team back at our home base prepared such a competitive car. The race team made the right decisions for the set-up and the strategy and the drivers delivered on the track. These 20 points are very important for our goal to move up in the championship."

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "Both cars got away quite well from the start. Our drivers were on different strategies: Kamui was on used medium tyres from Q3, while Sergio started on new hard tyres. We targeted one stop for both drivers. But Kamui lost some time, and we have to investigate why his car was not as quick as the other one. Something went wrong there. Sergio had to be patient in the beginning in order to do a longer first stint, and then on the new medium tyres his pace was outstanding, this explains his great performance. As a team we are very happy. The performance of the car was there, which was the basis for this great result."

Pastor Maldonado finished in 11th, making up eleven places from the grid and narrowly missing out on a double-points finish for the team.

Mark Gillan, Chief Operations Engineer: Both drivers had good starts and from 13th on the grid today, we are pleased to have scored a point with Bruno who ran a one-stop strategy and finished in tenth. Pastor also drove well, finishing just behind Bruno in 11th on a two stop strategy, having started back in 22nd following his 10-position grid penalty.

Laurent Debout, Renault Sport F1 team support leader: It was always going to be difficult to score points from our starting positions so for Bruno to come away with one point is some consolation. We have to look forward to Singapore, a very different type of track from here, and one that should suit us a lot better.

Luis Perez-Sala, Team Principal: "I'm happy with how the race went; we experienced no problems and the car proved its good reliability. We carried out a one-stop strategy which worked well and finished one lap off the winner, which proved that we had a good performance. We've closed the gap to the head of the field at a circuit that we knew would benefit us. Overall it's been a positive weekend with Ma's debut and Pedro's 100th Grand Prix, and now we're looking forward to Singapore, where I hope we will be able to continue progressing".

Both drivers had strong cars beneath them today and all the indications were that they were looking good for achieving the team's target of displacing one of the cars of its immediate competitors. Unfortunately for Timo, having lost his front wing end plate in the first lap melée, he started to lose aero performance and had to pit earlier than planned, which put him off-strategy for the balance of the race. Charles also had to switch strategy, from a planned one-stop race to two stops.

John Booth, Team Principal: "Overall, we've seen even further improvement today, however the race was not without its disappointments, as we were unable to finish in the positions that we had hoped for. Neither driver got the best of starts, however by the end of lap one we were in a position to challenge the cars directly ahead. The pace of both cars was good initially, but unfortunately Timo had broken his front wing end plate during the first lap melée and had to pit for a new wing, which effectively ruined his race as he was well off the optimum strategy. Charles did a fantastic job to keep pace with our immediate competitors and our plan for him was to run a one stop race. Unfortunately, we were limited by front tyre wear, despite having a good rate of rear degradation, and this resulted in us having to complete a two-stop race and lose what would have been track position to a Caterham. Despite our steady progress, experiences such as this do still disappoint us, but we take great comfort and encouragement from seeing how well we have fared here, despite not running an optimum Monza downforce package. We have achieved our target of ending the European section of the calendar on a positive note and we look forward to a very busy but exciting final phase of the season. As we say goodbye to Monza I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the team, both trackside and back at base, for all their hard work and dedication to the task of improving both car and team performance. We really are coming into our own now and we can all take tremendous pride in what we are achieving at this stage in the season."

Pirelli nominated the P Zero Silver hard tyre and P Zero White medium for Monza: the two hardest tyres in the Formula One range, which showed both performance and durability. Hamilton won after running 30 laps on the hard tyre at the end of the race, while the speed of the medium tyre - which Perez used for his 24-lap final stint - enabled him to be lapping more than two seconds faster than his closest rivals at one point as the grand prix came to its conclusion.

The race started in dry and warm conditions, with 39 degrees of track temperature and 27 degrees ambient: slightly hotter than it had been on Friday and Saturday. The top 10 on the grid all qualified on the medium tyre, with the highest-placed driver to start on the hard tyre being Perez from 12th. Jerome d'Ambrosio (Lotus), Pastor Maldonado (Williams), and Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) - who had to start from last on the grid - were the only other drivers to start the 53-lap race on the Silver hard tyre.

By lap 18 Perez was up to sixth and by lap 25 he took the lead, before stopping to change to the medium tyre on lap 29. He passed Alonso for second place on lap 46 to repeat his best-ever career result from Malaysia: the last race when the hard and medium P Zero tyres were nominated, at the start of the year.

Hamilton, who won by four seconds, stopped once on lap 23, moving from the medium to the hard tyre and handing the lead to Perez - re-taking it once the Sauber driver had made his pit stop. Ferrari also made a one-stop strategy work effectively, with Fernando Alonso completing a long 33-lap final stint on the hard tyre and eventually taking third place, having started from 10th on the grid.

The highest-placed driver to use a two-stop strategy was Michael Schumacher, who finished sixth ahead of his Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg on the same strategy: an opening stint on the medium compound followed by two stints on the hard compound. Rosberg also set the fastest lap of the race on the hard tyre.

Paul Hembery: "We witnessed performance and durability from both the P Zero tyres today: performance from the explosive drive by Sergio Perez and Sauber on the medium compound, and durability from the long runs we saw on the hard tyre from all the frontrunners, with the top five stopping only once on the fastest circuit of the year. Going into the race, the teams had to be quite flexible in their approach in order to decide between a one-stop and a two-stop strategy. Although tyre degradation is low in Monza there are some places like Parabolica that put a lot of energy through the front tyres in particular. Once more McLaren did an excellent job but we also saw very good tyre management from Ferrari - with Alonso making up eight places - and Perez, who demonstrated once more Sauber's ability to get the very best out of their tyres. And we'd like to thank all the Italian fans here, whose passion and enthusiasm has made this race unique. We really appreciate the support and welcome we have been given and we all feel proud to call this our home Grand Prix."