Thierry Salvi, Renault: "A very good end for the team, who thoroughly deserve this victory! We knew it would be a very difficult race based on the performance of the field, but we got a break today and Daniel took full advantage. Seb struggled with the car unfortunately. He suffered from the lack of running over the weekend, but he did a fantastic job to overtake at the end of the race. Three victories this year, and one at an ‘engine' circuit shows how just how hard we are working with the guys at Milton Keynes and how far we've come."

Lewis pitted on the second lap after suffering a puncture. He then stopped again for fresh tyres on laps 17 and 31 before retiring the car on lap 33. Nico ran a three-stop strategy, including a nose change on lap eight. He pitted twice further on laps 19 and 34. The team has finished on the podium in every race of the 2014 season so far, with a total of 19 top three finishes to date.

Toto Wolff: Today we saw our worst case scenario when the drivers made contact on lap two - and that ultimately cost us a one-two finish today, because we saw that our car had that kind of performance in it. It has been our clear policy to let the drivers race this year but rule number one is: don't hit each other. To see that kind of contact, so early in the race, is an unacceptable level of risk to be taking out on track. It cannot - and will not - happen again. After the collision, Nico drove the first stint with a significantly damaged front wing, changed it, then had to make an additional stop after flat-spotting his left front tyre to the point where it was dangerous. He then charged back through the field and was impressively close to taking the win in spite of a dramatic race. As for Lewis, he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back after the puncture, which damaged the floor and cost him a significant amount of performance. We left him out there in case the Safety Car came out, bunched up the field and allow us to gain some places, but it became clear that he had lost too much performance and was continuing to do so, so we retired the car before the finish. Overall, not a good day for the team - and it is clear that we need to strengthen our focus on securing the Constructors' Championship by delivering the potential of both cars in the next races. Now we need to regroup and come back stronger in Monza.

Paddy Lowe: We got off to a strong start, with Lewis taking the lead and Nico eventually recovering second place from Sebastian. One lap later, however, the incident between the two at turn five effectively ruined our afternoon. It's a great shame, as the car had looked strong all weekend and we were in an excellent position to potentially score a one-two finish. We opted to continue the race with Lewis in case of a safety car scenario, which may have given him an opportunity to recover the lost ground. But in the end this never came and, with his floor heavily damaged by tyre debris on the second lap, the condition of the car deteriorated further as the race continued. For Nico it was a case of damage limitation. Our calculations confirmed that we would have to change his nose to have any chance of a podium - but of course that cost time. As it was, although he was closing in rapidly at the end, a lockup and resultant flat spot on the second set of tyres ultimately cost him that opportunity. Overall, massive disappointment after all the hard work put in by the team to come away with a result not matching our potential this weekend.

Pat Fry: "Fourth and seventh places can't be seen as satisfactory, especially given that circumstances today meant we could have delivered more as a team. Clearly, Fernando's penalty, because of a problem with the charge from the external battery we use on the grid, cost him the chance of fighting for a place on the podium and from this incident we must learn to improve our procedures. From then on, his race was compromised and whatever strategy we went for would have seen him in traffic: that's how it turned out and unfortunately, he suffered a lot behind Magnussen, who could count on better straight line speed. Despite this, Fernando pulled off several overtaking moves and drove a great race. It's a shame about the contact with Vettel at La Source, which cost him places right at the end. Kimi ran a clean race and we are pleased his feeling with the car is improving. It was precise and he made no mistakes: we came close to a third place with him, which he maybe deserved. Now we will continue to develop the car to give both our drivers an ever more competitive package, even if we have to be realistic when it comes to the rest of the season. Monza will be a very tough race, but there too, we will try and get the maximum out of our available package."

Romain started from P15 on new soft compound tyres, pitting at the end of the first lap for a new front wing and new medium compound tyres. He stopped on laps 13 and 27 for further sets of soft tyres. He retired from the race on lap 33. Pastor started from P17 on new soft tyres. He retired from the race on lap 2.

Federico Gastaldi, Deputy Team Principal: "It was highly unfortunate that we had to retire both cars today. There is pace and the team is working extremely hard to extract every ounce of performance. We will regroup between now and Monza of course, and do everything we can to improve further. We'll also keep looking for that pot of good luck."

Alan Permane, Trackside Operations Director: "A tough race. Romain sustained damage at the first corner, which meant we had to change the front wing at the end of that lap. We opted for the prime tyres and he was actually running very strongly from then on, although obviously a long way back. Unfortunately, he picked up some damage after his final pit stop which made the car a real handful for him - he radioed in that the car was dangerous, so the only sensible thing to do was retire. Pastor suffered from what looks to be an exhaust failure early on in the race. We're investigating both cars to understand what happened."

Simon Rebreyend, Renault Sport F1 track support leader: "We knew Spa would be difficult but we fell short of our expectations this weekend. Pastor suffered an exhaust failure soon after the start, while the team had to retire Romain's car due to a bodywork issue. We'll look to Monza now and hope for better."

"Throughout, Jenson and Kevin were in the thick of it, and it was great to see them racing the Red Bulls and the Ferraris fast and hard. They both drove extremely well, exhibiting redoubtable derring-do, and, although they raced wheel to wheel with each other, they never touched.

"From here we go to Monza, another classic low-downforce circuit, where we'll be hoping to capitalise on our steady ongoing performance development and score a useful number of World Championship points."

Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal: "Considering the issues we had in qualifying yesterday, it's good to see the team recover some ground today and score points. The two-stop races for Sergio and Nico went to plan, without any significant issues, but starting outside the top ten meant we were always going to face an uphill struggle this afternoon. Both drivers were caught in the midfield train of traffic and that made it difficult to demonstrate our true race pace, especially early on. Sergio drove a very mature race and picked up a couple of points, while Nico came close to claiming the final point. We remain in a strong position in the championship and hopefully Monza will give us a better opportunity to show our potential and get both cars in the points."

Monisha Kaltenborn, Team Principal: "The whole crew delivered a race without any mistakes. However, it is disappointing to see that on a track where power and top speed are crucial, we were simply not fast enough. For the upcoming events it will be important for us to build on the improvements that we were able to make recently on the chassis side during the last few races."

Giampaolo Dall'Ara, Head of Track Engineering: "This was a disappointing result after a reasonable race. We expected that we would struggle in dry conditions, and we finally achieved more or less what we could expect. We tried something with Adrian‘s strategy, starting on the medium tyre, which was clearly slower than the soft. This was working until he got stuck behind Felipe Massa. We then decided to switch to a three stop strategy, which didn't work out because Adrian got stuck behind slower cars. In the end, our drivers finished behind each other."

Ricardo Penteado (Renault Sport F1 track support leader): "The race was clean for us in terms of energy and fuel management on Daniil's car so it was a shame to come away with just one point. On JEV's car the different car set up possibly offset the pace we could have had, making it difficult to overtake, but the potential is there. It gives us momentum going forward to the team's home race in Monza in two weeks."

Rob Smedley, Head of Performance Engineering: Valtteri had a brilliant result today, putting in a really mature drive and passing cars when he needed to thanks to the impressive chassis and power unit package. The strategy worked perfectly for us as well; we stuck to our plan and this paid dividends. Felipe was incredibly unlucky, picking up a large amount of debris from Hamilton's tyre that stayed under his car for 20 laps and probably cost him about 40 seconds in total with his compromised pace and strategy. As we are continuing to do, we need to improve our operations. This has not been a straight forward weekend so to finish with a car on the podium is a decent result and we look forward to Monza.

Jules lined up on the grid in 16th place for today's 44 lap Belgian Grand Prix after a fantastic qualifying performance yesterday. He got a great start before Grosjean hit him from behind in Turn 1, puncturing his right-rear tyre and necessitating a pit stop after the opening lap. Conversely, Max started in P19 but drove a solid race, gradually reeling in Ericsson before eventually displacing him on lap 42.

Following his collision, the Team switched Jules to a one-stop strategy and in a display of fine tyre management, he made his first stint on the soft tyre last for 22 laps, in a bid to regain lost time and get back in touch with the cars ahead. He completed a second stint on the Medium tyre before retiring due to a suspected gearbox issue. Max raced to a two-stop Soft-Medium-Soft strategy.

John Booth, Team Principal: "Not the result we were hoping for today, however, in the overall scheme of things, it is still a positive one. Max's race got off to a reasonable start, although we were unable to make the first undercut to Ericsson due to stopping on the same lap. We knew our best chance was to revise the strategy and complete a longer middle stint on the prime, to allow Max to attack towards the end of the race on fresher soft tyres, which he was able to do on the second to last lap of the race. With Jules, his day was pretty much over at the exit of Turn 1. With the puncture, he lost in excess of 50 seconds, however he did not give up the fight and did a fantastic long first stint on the option tyre, cutting this gap significantly and for much of that stint running the same pace as the Saubers. In the end, the effectively one-stop strategy designed to protect from any Safety Cars didn't quite pay off and that, combined with the blue flags you see when you drop that far back, meant that he was unable to make any progress forwards. Overall, some positives to take away, in terms of the pace and improved balance that we've seen on the car this weekend. Everyone is looking forward to moving on to Monza and dealing with the challenges of another fantastic and historic circuit."

Claudio Albertini, Head of Customer Teams Power Unit Operations, Scuderia Ferrari: "The race started badly - a puncture for Jules - but ended with a great feeling, thanks to the last-gasp overtaking move by Max on Ericsson, which has allowed the team to end one more Grand Prix in front of one of our main rivals. It really was a shame that Jules' race, having yesterday been the great protagonist in qualifying once again with the third Q2 contention in the last four races, was so heavily influenced by what happened in the collision with Grosjean after the start. The pace that he had, especially in the first half of the race when he did not have to deal with the blue flags, was very competitive and would have allowed him to do battle with Sauber. At the end, some parameters related to the operation of the gearbox were not the norm and therefore, as a precaution, we asked the team to call him in the garage some laps before the chequered flag. Max fought for almost the entire race with Ericsson and his tenacity was rewarded in the last few laps, proving that you should always believe it, until the end."

"We have a very busy next two weeks ahead, as we carry on working to bring more updates to the next race in Italy. It's been a positive start, but now we need to build on this and make sure we get stronger every race. I have total confidence in the team and I know that they are going to give their very best to keep improving the car. We are moving in the right direction."

Cedrik Staudohar, Renault Sport F1 track support leader: "We had a very smooth race with Marcus and he was ahead of Chilton for a large part of the GP. We tried to give him as much power as possible at the end, but his tyre wear was too high and Max was able to get past. Andre's race was very short - his car lost power on the second lap, possibly as a result of running hard over a kerb. We need to look into this tonight in more detail. Overall however it's been a positive weekend and gives a good basis for the second part of the season going forward."

Ricciardo's victory was the 50th for Red Bull and his third in six races. Underlining the consistency of the medium tyre in particular, Ricciardo set his fastest lap on the final tour of the longest circuit in the championship.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg finished just over three seconds behind him, despite using a completely different strategy. Rosberg stopped three times, starting on the soft tyre then completing two middle stints on the medium, before finishing on the soft.

A three-stop strategy was also used by Red Bull's reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel. Like Rosberg, Vettel decided to use the soft tyre right at the end of the race to boost his pace just when he needed it most to hunt down his closest competitors. With around a 1.6-second time difference per lap between the medium and soft compounds, the P Zero Yellow added an extra element of strategy to one of the most demanding races of the year. As a result, there were some thrilling battles all the way to the flag for the points-scoring places.

Owing to warmer weather conditions, degradation of both compounds was different to how it had been during free practice. This led to a wide variety of strategies being employed on different cars, depending on the individual ways in which they used the tyres.

Paul Hembery: "Track and ambient temperatures were higher than they had been up to now during the weekend, which meant that we saw a little less life out of the soft tyre than we had initially predicted. But considering the demands of this circuit and the nature of the soft and medium compounds that we had chosen to bring, wear and degradation was still well within expectations. It was interesting to see the different strategies at work, especially with the extra speed of the soft tyre. In retrospect, there were probably more drivers who wished they had used the soft for a third pit stop, but our calculations from yesterday indicated that two stops was the best way to go - and we got a very exciting race."