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Hungarian GP: Sunday Quotes

Michael Schumacher

“Today was obviously one of those races that you will not look back at for very long” Michael said. “Our engine temperatures were very high before the start, and when the yellow lights came on, I switched the engine off. After I had started from the pit lane, I picked up a penalty and then a puncture. So all in all, the beginning of the race was not very pleasant for us. Everything you do not need came together. We did not have full telemetry before the start and during the period of overheating, and this is why we finally decided to retire so as not risk any damage which might make us suffer in the next race. Now we can now check the car properly before the break and prior to Spa. This weekend is not one to remember, but then there are weekends like this which you can only accept. I am sure we will be looking much better in the next races to come."

Ross Brawn

“Nico did a good job today, and 10th place is about where the car was, if not a little better. He drove very well to make the tyres last which is a positive sign, and a good strategy saw him pick up places. Michael had a much more eventful race. He started from the pit lane, incurred a penalty and then had a puncture so it wasn't exactly an ideal start to the afternoon. During that period, we lost all telemetry on his car, and subsequently had various problems during the race which we weren't entirely sure what they were, therefore we decided to retire the car. We are clearly not as competitive as we want to be and, whilst we got everything out of the car today, we need to find more performance and lap time.

Norbert Haug

“After a problematic qualifying where we did not make it into Q3 for the first time this season, we could not expect a good race result today. After his first stop on lap 15, Nico was already 26 seconds down to the leader, and he lost another 25 seconds during the following 52 laps. About half a second a lap - a gap that we experienced already at the previous races in Silverstone and Hockenheim. So it is very clear that we have a lot of work ahead of us, and I am convinced that we will improve our performance during the remaining nine races. After his start from the pit lane and his drive-through penalty, the team brought Michael in as a precaution with 11 laps to go. Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and Vodafone McLaren Mercedes on their 75th win with a Mercedes engine in the last 15 years."

Grosjean: 'Schumacher didn't respect the blue flags at all'

Romain Grosjean was left disappointed with his second place finish at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday as he believed that he stood with a good chance of winning the race.

The Frenchman made a good start maintaining his position at Turn 1 as he defended from the charge of Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel only to be obstructed by another multiple German champion in the later stages.

Grosjean had a good battle for the lead with Lewis Hamilton all through the first two stints, but then he found himself stuck behind the Mercedes of Michael Schumacher “who didn’t respect the blue flags at all” costing the Lotus driver a lot of time.

“Because of this I lost a place to Kimi (Raikkonen), and at the same time a possible chance to fight for the win,” he said.

Grosjean was diplomatic about Raikkonen's manoeuvre at Turn 1 after the Finn’s final pit stop, when the 2007 world champion practically pushed his teammate off the track to take over second place.

"He did what he had to do to not let me pass," said Grosjean, who sounded confident he would have caught Hamilton. "I went a little bit on the outside and got the marbles on the tyres, and then I struggled to recover. It is what it is."

Michael Schumacher caused aborted start when he stopped out of position

The start of the Hungarian Grand Prix was originally aborted because Michael Schumacher stopped out of position, the FIA has confirmed.

After completing the customary warm-up lap, the field was then kept waiting on the grid as yellow lights flashed, before eventually being sent on a second preparatory tour of the Hungaroring.

As that happened, Schumacher was wheeled into the pitlane, the German having elected to switch off his engine due to a misunderstanding about the delay.

That led to some confusion about what had originally caused the aborted start, but the FIA has moved to clarify the issue by confirming that Schumacher had not originally parked inside his designated grid spot.

It was the first of a series of upsets the seven-time champion suffered, with a puncture and pitlane penalty leaving him 18th before he eventually retired.

Schumacher switched off engine

Michael Schumacher said he turned his own engine off at the beginning of the Hungarian Grand Prix in a misunderstanding over the delayed start.

The Hungaroring race start was delayed for reasons not yet clear, with the yellow lights flashing as cars formed up on the grid.

The usual procedure is for cars to continue running and immediately do another formation lap, but Schumacher shut his Mercedes down and consequently had to start from the pitlane.

"We had the yellow lights and pretty high engine temperatures, and I decided to switch off the engine as we were waiting so long," he admitted.

The German's race then got worse still, with a puncture, a pitlane speeding penalty and ultimately a late retirement from 18th place.

"We had a puncture - I don't know how and what happened. There was obviously no contact, I was alone and by myself," said Schumacher.

"Then we even had a drive-through because maybe the pitlane limiter or something didn't work properly during the puncture phase.

"That was the race decided. It was just trying to hang out and see if maybe something unusual would happen that we could take benefit from.

"In the end, because we'd had these engine temperatures and we had some telemetry issues, we decided to stop the car."

Hungarian GP: Saturday Quotes

Michael Schumacher

"It was quite a tough and difficult day for us. We have to clearly see that we did not have the pace to be in the front. I could have done a faster lap probably, without the dust having been brought to the track by Maldonado, but then I still do not think it would have brought me into Q3. I don't think we could have done much more. This morning we practised for long runs as yesterday we could not do that due to the rain but I don’t think it compromised our performance. You have to accept the gap is quite big. We know the combination of track layout and temperature does not suit us too much, and we will try to make the best out of it tomorrow."

Ross Brawn

 “very disappointing: the car hasn’t been great so far this weekend, and with the margins being so tight, it didn’t help us today. We didn’t quite get it together with the balance and the tyres, and with the times being so close, this is where we have ended up on the grid as a consequence. Michael was especially unfortunate not to get a proper clean lap with his new tyres in Q2. We are working very hard to improve our position and will continue to do so."

Norbert Haug

“we made changes to both cars after P3 which lead us in the right direction. However we certainly have not been sorted out like we should and had to pay the price. In Q2, Nico was two-tenths down to P10, and half a second to P2.

Schumacher: 'Mercedes too slow'

Michael Schumacher said that Mercedes just has to accept that it will not be competitive in the Hungarian Grand Prix, after the team's worst showing of the season in qualifying.

Schumacher will start down in 17th position, four places behind his team-mate Nico Rosberg. 

Schumacher's flying lap was compromised by dust left on track by Williams driver Pastor Maldonado, but the seven-time world champion said that he? was unlikely to have done much better.

"It was quite a tough and difficult day for us," said Schumacher. "We have to clearly see that we did not have the pace to be in the front. I could have done a faster lap probably, without the dust having been brought to the track by Maldonado, but then I still do not think it would have brought me into Q3.

"I don't think we could have done much more. This morning we practiced for long runs as yesterday we could not do that due to the rain, but I don't think it compromised our performance.

"You have to accept the gap is quite big. We know the combination of track layout and temperature does not suit us too much, and we will try to make the best out of it tomorrow."

His team-mate Rosberg said that the team needs to look at why the pair of F1 W03s have been so slow, and is hopeful that prioritising his race set-up during qualifying will help him have a stronger Sunday.

"That was a difficult qualifying for us today, and we need to analyse why it turned out like that," said Rosberg.

"Qualifying is always a compromise and I was focused on finding a good race set-up for tomorrow as we may have more tyre degradation on our car than others, but it is still disappointing not to make Q3 by two tenths."