The Sauber team are delighted to have finally finished in a points paying position thanks to Kamui Kobayashi.
The Japanese driver managed to finish in P10, the same place he qualified in. Despite loosing a position at the start of the race, Kobayashi gained one when Sebastian Vettel retired from the race after colliding with his team mate.
“I am very happy that we finished the race with both cars and got the first point,” said Kamui. “I had a good start, although I was on the dirty side of the track, and the pace of the car in the beginning was good.
“Our race strategy was not easy. The car was better on the harder tyre compound, therefore we did a very short first stint on the softer ones. I pitted after ten laps and drove the rest of the race with the same set of tyres.
“In the end I could see from the car the canvas on the front right tyre. Therefore I started to be very careful, especially in turn 8, and that’s also the reason why I didn’t defend any harder against Adrian Sutil.”
Team principal, Peter Sauber, believes the result proves Sauber’s upward development trend having finished twelfth in Barcelona and improving on that result to take tenth.
“Looking at the whole weekend it’s clear we were able to confirm the upward trend which we saw in Barcelona,” he explained. “Of course we were lucky in the race, but we finished with both cars and finally scored a well deserved championship point.”
