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Sebastian Vettel (1st)
“We are the 2010 constructors’ champions! Regards to everyone here and back in Milton Keynes, it’s their achievement - we are one team and they can be very, very proud of what they have accomplished today. It has been a pleasure for me so far this year to drive that car. We have had ups and downs and many have given us a hard time, sometimes right and sometimes not, but we are always on the edge trying to make the car quicker, which is so good. We are always pushing to get updates, even when they only offer a little bit extra. Everyone matters in this team and I’m proud of them and also of myself today - we had a straightforward race, no issues and we were able to control it. There are a busy few days before the next race, but I think back in Milton Keynes and here in Brazil, there will be a couple of drinks tonight.”
Mark Webber (2nd)
“Today is a sensational day for the team - for everyone in Milton Keynes, in Red Bull and for all our suppliers - the list goes on and on. We have won the constructors’ and done it with a dominant one-two finish after a tough weekend in Korea. So many people have worked so hard for this, Adrian Newey, Christian Horner, Peter Prodromou, Rob Marshall, the boys in the race shop, the race bays… the list is endless - they all know who they are and it’s a credit to all of them. We’ve had everything thrown at us this year - right-height systems, flexi wings - and at the end of the day we’ve won, which is a very big achievement. Looking to the drivers’ championship I took a few points off Fernando today, so it’s still all to play for in Abu Dhabi. The team’s philosophy is that we race and we will work to that. Seb deserved the win today - it was a close fight. Both of us need to finish ahead of Fernando in Abu Dhabi, so let’s see what happens there.”
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Fernando Alonso (3rd)
“All things considered, I am pleased with this result. We have only lost three points to our closest rival and, given how things turned out yesterday in qualifying, it went well: if this morning, I had been told it would finish like this, I would have happily signed for it! I want to congratulate Red Bull and Renault for the constructors’ title: to reach the top in just a few years is a great achievement. We were very cautious in the very first corners, because everyone was very aggressive and we did not want to risk touching anyone. Then, we immediately lost too much ground to Vettel and Webber: it took me several laps to get past Hulkenberg, while passing Hamilton is never easy. My race pace was good, as we had seen on Friday. When the safety car came out, we thought it might be an opportunity to attack, but there were too many backmarkers between me and Mark and it took too long to get past them: a shame , because at that point, the car was really very competitive. Now, we go to Abu Dhabi: we know what we have to do and taking the title depends on us.”
Lewis Hamilton (4th)
“I pushed as hard as I could on every lap today, but this was a tough race for me. I actually feel quite lucky to have finished where I did. The car just didn’t feel like it did in practice. I was even struggling to overtake the backmarkers in a straight line - Fernando shot past me at the start, too - and it almost felt like my F-duct wasn’t working perfectly. I’m still in the hunt for the drivers’ championship, but I’m 24 points down, so I have nothing to lose now. In Abu Dhabi I’ll be doing everything I can to pull off the win I need, and hoping the other guys hit problems. As always, we won’t give up and we’ll keep on pushing. We’ve seen many times before that almost anything can happen in the last race of the season. It’ll take a miracle - but miracles can happen!”
Jenson Button (5th)
“I had a great race today and had a lot of fun fighting my way through the field. We finally sorted the car out for the race, I had some pretty decent race pace, I made some great passing moves, and the team made a couple of perfect calls on strategy. From where I started, I couldn’t have done any better, so it feels good to have finished fifth.Lewis can still win the drivers’ world championship - but the top three drivers will have to fare badly for it to happen, so I guess it’ll be difficult for him. For me, I’m out of it now, so I’ll treat the final race much as I treated this one: I’ll just have fun and try to enjoy it. I won the drivers’ world championship in Brazil last year, and I lost it here this year. But, all in all, it’s been a pretty good season. It was a learning year, and good practice for next year: I firmly believe we can really build on this for the 2011 season. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes is a really strong team - in fact I don’t think there’s any team stronger than us.”
Nico Rosberg (6th)
“I had a strong start today and when Michael pitted ahead of me, I had clear air and was able to make up positions thanks to our good strategy. From then, it got a little chaotic but the team made a great call to get me on new rubber when the safety car came out. Unfortunately Jenson did the same and there was a lot of chaos with lapped cars so I wasn’t able to make up any further positions. Michael let me past which was nice as he was on used rubber against my new tyres.”
Michael Schumacher (7th)
“I had quite a good start today gaining two positions which unfortunately I lost again directly afterwards following my exit on the grass because of the fight with Robert. We then had good pace but with hindsight, my pit stop was maybe a little too early which left me stuck behind Adrian. Towards the end, I let Nico past when he was on fresh tyres as he had the better chance to fight Jenson in front of us. I look forward to Abu Dhabi now where I hope to have another encouraging race.”
Nico Hulkenberg (8th)
“I am happy with that result because I gave it everything today; there wasn’t anything left in me to give! I was struggling quite a lot with the car, it really wasn’t easy to drive, but I kept Kubica behind me all the way. The team did a great pit stop and chose the right strategy; we just needed some more car pace. Even though we started on pole, my expectations for the race were to finish between fifth and tenth, so P8 is fine and it means we are now sixth in the constructors’ championship.”
Robert Kubica (9th)
“It was a tough race this afternoon. I spent every lap in traffic but I didn’t have enough of a performance advantage over Hülkenberg to get past: I was losing a lot of time in the low- speed corners, and I couldn’t use our top speed advantage because I was stuck on the rev limiter for a long time on the main straight, so couldn’t attack him. The other critical part of the race came just after my pit stop, when Hülkenberg and I were running behind my teammate for a number of laps and we couldn’t make the most of our fresh tyres, which cost me a position to Schumacher.”
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