(Renault Sport F1)
Infiniti Red Bull Racing scored their third victory of the season as Daniel Ricciardo scored his third victory of the season and his second consecutive win of the season following his victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix prior to the Summer break. As a result the Australian has cemented his third place in the driver's championship on 156 points.
Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel finished the race in fifth place in the second Red Bull RB10. The Infiniti Red Bull Racing/Renault partnership has now claimed 50 race wins since the partnership began in 2007. Their first race win for the partnership came at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix when Sebastian Vettel took victory from pole position while Mark Webber finished the race in 2nd place.
It was a disappointing race for the Lotus F1 Team as both Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado were forced to retire from the race. Maldonado's retirement from the race was as a result of a power until failure.
Daniil Kvyat also manged to bring his Renault powered Toro Rosso home in the point's as he finished the race in 9th place.
Speaking following the race Renault Sport F1 Track Operations Remii Taffin stated:
'We came into the weekend with cautious expectations, knowing it would take some luck, but we took full advantage of the conditions here today.
A victory at an engine circuit where we were expected to struggle shows the never give up, never surrender mentality we have at Renault Sport F1 and how the knocks just make us work harder and smarter. In the past few months we have been working even closer with Red Bull and today was an example of optimizing a chassis and engine package. This clear direction and streamlining is playing dividends.
Reliability is obviously now the key, and enhancing the package where we can. F1 is hard work, but also luck, and we had this today. We’ll now carry forward this renewed confidence to Monza.'
© Ben Johnston 2014
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