Nick Heidfeld was pleased with the progress he made during this afternoon’s Spanish Grand Prix, fighting through the field from 24th on the grid to cross the line in eighth place. Despite narrowly missing out on the opportunity to launch an attack on the Mercedes GP drivers ahead, the Renault driver was encouraged by his pace.
"I’m satisfied with eighth after starting from last position," Heidfeld explained after the race. "Just like in Turkey, with one or two laps more I could have gained one or two more positions from the two Mercedes, but it’s still a good result if you look at where I started and everything that happened to the car over this weekend.
"I had a good start then I had to fight through the field with many overtaking moves so it was good fun for me behind the wheel. It’s always encouraging to put in a strong performance, and I’m more happy and relaxed heading to Monaco."
Russian team-mate Vitaly Petrov added his thoughts: "I am naturally disappointed not to make better use of my grid position and not pick up some points. It seems that my qualifying position had little effect for the race today, so we need to analyse in detail exactly why that happened.
"I managed to start ok and move up a position into fifth, but it was then difficult to get to the leading pack, which is where we want to be. But, this is one result and one result only and I want to put things right in Monaco, where qualifying will be extremely important. Of that there is little doubt.
"At least as a team we picked up some more points with Nick, so we must take the positives and move forwards."
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| Pos. | Driver | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  S. Vettel | Red Bull | 1:39:03.301 |
| 2. | L. Hamilton | McLaren | +0.630 |
| 3. | J. Button | McLaren | +35.697 |
| 4. | M. Webber | Red Bull | +47.966 |
| 5. | F. Alonso | Ferrari | +1 Lap |
| 6. | M. Schumacher | Mercedes | +1 Lap |
| 7. | N. Rosberg | Mercedes | +1 Lap |
| 8. | N. Heidfeld | Lotus Renault | +1 Lap |
| 9. | S. Perez | Sauber | +1 Lap |
| 10. | K. Kobayashi | Sauber | +1 Lap |
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