Sauber had a mixed day. Kamui Kobayashi failed to finish the race after he had technical problems but Sergio Perez finished 7th and scored a good amount of points. Technical director James Key was pretty happy with the overall result: "It has been a decent result for us today. I think Sergio did a great job of controlling a race which was tricky in many ways with the adverse conditions to begin with, and then just a single tyre change onto the dry tyres. He was battling with Nico Rosberg for pretty much the whole race, sadly be couldn't get through. His start wasn't great, so he dropped back a bit, but he hauled that back with his pace and the strategy, which was a good effort by the whole team."

Kamui failed to finish after the team called him over the radio to retire the car: "It was a great shame for Kamui, as he was looking competitive, but then he had a coming together with a Mercedes. Then during his stop we had a problem which resulted in him being released later than originally planned and unfortunately there was an unintentional clash with a Williams. That took a huge amount of downforce away from his front wing and he was then unfortunately quite slow. Then he had a ten second drive through penalty and an engine oil issue, possibly due to the impact he had with the Mercedes, so we decided to retire him and not damage the engine. At the end of the day we have come away from a long weekend with points so thank you to the team."