Jarno Trulli (13th) “What a great day for the whole team, just fantastic. I’m really pleased for everyone with the result, and congratulations to Heikki as well on a great race. I had a really good start and came in under the safety car to switch to the primes. I came out behind Yamamoto and immediately attacked him – I got past him pretty quick and then went after Heikki. We both had a strong run to the end, and even though I had another hydraulics issue in the last couple of laps, I managed to get the car home which was obviously the main objective.” Mike Gascoyne, Lotus chief technical officer “A really fantastic result for the team today. 12th and 13th places are our best positions of the season so far, and I’m delighted for everyone that we had such strong performances from both cars today. Qualifying went very well this morning - we were just under a second ahead of the other new teams, and we carried that through to the afternoon. We had always planned to stop just one car if there was an early safety car, and that was the car ahead. When the safety car came out Jarno was in front so we pulled him in and put him on the primes. Unfortunately it took him a few laps to pass Yamamoto, and that really hurt his race strategy, and that, combined with the blue flags, meant Heikki stayed ahead of him on track. Despite that, it was a great race from both drivers. We had a small hydraulics issue on Jarno’s car at the end, but it didn’t slow him down and he was able to maintain 13th place. I want to say congratulations to the whole team for such a strong performance all weekend - this really was a job well done.”
