Sergio Perez was able to achieve his second Q3 qualifying for Sauber. The first time was when the Mexican crashed in Monaco. Peter Sauber was very excited by the performance of his rookie: "It's the first time in his Formula 1 career that Sergio can start from the top 10, which is always something special. Congratulations to him for a fantastic performance and also to his race engineer. I'm sure it was the right thing to do to save one set of new supersoft tyres for the race. P13 is maybe a little bit less than what Kamui had hoped for, but he is in a very good position to attack tomorrow and fight for points."

Technical director James Key added:"I'm very pleased with Sergio's performance in qualifying. We knew from this morning that it was likely to be extremely close, so it was great to get through to Q3. We decided not to do a flying lap in that session, although possibly we could have made a bit of progress. I think saving tyres will be extremely important tomorrow. We took a strategic decision not to do a timed lap, although he left the pits we decided to bring him in. Unfortunately Kamui couldn't make it to Q3, but it was only a matter of tenths. We will look at all possibilities and try to come up with a sensible race strategy and aim for a good points finish tomorrow."