Kamui Kobayashi was looking to get points for a long time but in the last phase of the race his tyres were too old and couldn't defend his seventh position. In the end the Japanese Sauber driver finished 11th. He explains his race: "Having not scored any points today is of course disappointing. My start was good and the pace at the beginning was good too. The car's performance in the wet was fine and after we had changed onto dry tyres the pace was reasonable. For a long time it looked as if I could get points today, but then it went wrong. When the second lot of rain came the team briefly thought about calling me to the pits to pick up intermediate tyres but I didn't want to because I found the track was improving. This is how I improved to seventh place, but then we waited too long for the next tyre change. I couldn't defend my position on that set of supersoft anymore and finally, after the unavoidable third pit stop, dropped just out of the points."