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Here are some comments I found on our internal news board but I think it is available somewhere on the web.
[Motorsports] Infiniti in Formula One - Malaysian Grand Prix
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15 hours ago
Car 1 SEBASTIAN VETTEL,
Finish Position: 1st, Start Position:
POLE POSITION
“I messed up
today. I would love to come up with a nice excuse as to why I did it, but I
can’t. I can understand Mark’s frustration and the team not being happy with
what I did today; I owe an explanation to him and the whole team. I will try to
explain to them later. We talk about this situation happening many times and
what we will do if and when it happens and normally it doesn’t, but today it did
and I should have translated the call into action. I got the call and I ignored
it. Mark and I are used to fighting each other when we’re close, but with the
tyres how they are now, and not knowing how long they will last, it was an
extremely big risk to ignore the call to stay second. We could have ended up
finishing eighth or ninth after destroying the tyres in those two laps; I put
myself above a team decision, which was wrong. I didn’t mean to and I apologise.
I’m not happy I’ve won, I made a mistake and if I could undo it I would. It’s
not easy right now and I owe apologies to Mark and the team.â€
Car 2 MARK
WEBBER,
Finish Position: 2nd, Start Position: 5th
“I think Sebastian has respect
for me and I have respect for him, but the situation today was not handled well.
It’s hard to put your finger on it all now after the race; when we’re racing on
the limit and pushing as hard as we can, then it’s the worst situation for a
team. I am sure they are bricking themselves and know that things can go wrong.
There’s a bit of history to this as well; my mind in the last 15 laps was
thinking about a lot of things, but I was happy with the way I drove. I tried to
isolate what happened at the end and we got something out of it today, but of
course I’m not satisfied with the result. This puts heat on a few people and
unfortunately there’s no rewind button. I know people want raw emotion from us
after these situations and it’s there, but we need to remain cool. There’s three
weeks until the next race, so time for us to work on things.â€
CHRISTIAN HORNER, Team
Principal:
“Before getting into anything
else, it was a phenomenal team performance from the car and pit crew today with
the pit crew recording fantastically fast stops. We recorded our fastest ever
time on Mark’s second stop, which is possibly a new best-ever in the pit lane.
Obviously there’s an awful lot of debate about what happened at the end of the
race. Our position after that finial pit stop was all about managing the race
until the end and conserving our tyres, getting the cars to the finish and
achieving maximum points. Unfortunately drivers’ interests can sometimes come
into conflict with the teams’. Sebastian decided to take things into his own
hands today and race Mark, thankfully making a clean pass and switching the
order to the flag. It’s frustrating. Formula One is both a team and an
individual sport and sometimes there is a conflict between a driver’s desire and
a team’s interest. What happened today is something that shouldn’t have
happened. It’s something that Sebastian has apologised for and it’s something
that we will discuss internally as a team.â€
THIERRY SALVI, Renault:
“It was a tough race. I think we managed
well with both engines and fuel consumption was under control throughout. It was
easier to control temperatures due to it being wet at the start. I think the
set-up we provided worked well. It was quite tight between both engines in the
race and they were similar with engine performance.â€
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