Podium! Nico Rosberg led
home a double points score for the AT&T Williams team, in the process
claiming a career-best second place in the inaugural Singapore Grand
Prix. In an incident-filled and physically demanding race, Rosberg
overcame the disadvantage of a stop-go penalty with a superlative drive
in Formula One’s first night race to score eight points and the team’s
best finish since the European Grand Prix in 2005. Team-mate Kazuki
Nakajima contributed a further point to the tally with a spirited drive
to eighth place.
Nico Rosberg:
"It
was a race of so many ups and downs for me. It started badly as I ended
up behind a heavy Jarno Trulli and I absolutely had to get by him to
allow my strategy to work. It was quite a hairy moment getting past
because it is so bumpy to outbrake at turn 7 and I couldn’t get close at
turn 1, the only two places where overtaking is possible. Anyway, having
eventually cleared him, I couldn’t believe it when I saw that the safety
car had come out just after the team had called me in for my stop and I
thought that’s the end of it. Before my stop-go penalty, I just had to
push like mad and do qualifying lap after qualifying lap and I managed
to build enough of a gap to complete my second stop and hold on to
second place. With a handful or laps to go in the most physical race
this year and a car in your mirrors, time goes amazingly slowly, but for
once everything went our way. I think Frank will have to wear his lucky
tartan trousers again!"
Kazuki Nakajima: "It
was a great day for the team, returning to form and of course
congratulations to Nico. As far as my race was concerned, the Safety Car
timing was a little bit unfortunate, but I just had to push my race pace
on regardless of what happened and overtake a few cars, and in the end,
it was great to claim a point for the first time in a while. Hopefully
today showed potential which we can try to maintain for the rest of the
season."
Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "It
was a fantastic result from Nico, obviously the penalty for refuelling
under the safety car could have been a problem, but he still managed to
open up a sufficient gap to achieve a second podium this season and his
career best finish. Kazuki did well to hang in there and score a point
too, all-in-all it was just what the team needed. We didn’t have any
technical problems and everything went without a hitch, so it was a
great effort from everyone concerned."
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"It
was a great day for the team, returning to form and of course
congratulations to Nico. As far as my race was concerned, the Safety Car
timing was a little bit unfortunate, but I just had to push my race pace
on regardless of what happened and overtake a few cars, and in the end,
it was great to claim a point for the first time in a while. Hopefully
today showed potential which we can try to maintain for the rest of the
season."
"It
was a fantastic result from Nico, obviously the penalty for refuelling
under the safety car could have been a problem, but he still managed to
open up a sufficient gap to achieve a second podium this season and his
career best finish. Kazuki did well to hang in there and score a point
too, all-in-all it was just what the team needed. We didn’t have any
technical problems and everything went without a hitch, so it was a
great effort from everyone concerned."
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