It was another good race for Kamui Kobayashi. After his poor qualifying he had to start from P17 but managed to get in the points for the 7th time this season. The Japanese driver finished the race as 9th and scored two points. Afterwards he was happy with how the race unfolded: "My start was good and then I was able to gain some positions in the first few corners of lap one. This was nice. I had been 17th on the grid and was in 12th after the first lap. But then it was difficult because our pace just wasn't good enough here."

He continued: "The fact that we have scored points is down to a very good pit stop strategy, I want to thank the team for an excellent job. I was able to overtake both Williams during the race, but it was impossible to get Michael (Schumacher). He was way too fast on the straights. However, I'm happy we managed to score after a bad qualifying, and hope we will be performing better at the next race."