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Spanish Grand Prix: Quotes of the weekend

The Spanish Grand Prix wasn’t a classic race, but there were still plenty of memorable moments outside of the cars. F1i recaps some of the best quotes of the weekend from the Circuit de Catalunya…

FA: “It would feel terrible!”

CS: “It would feel great!”

Differing views when Carlos Sainz is asked how it would feel to beat Fernando Alonso in Barcelona. He did.

“We are so far on the back foot with reliability anyway that, to be honest, this year is pretty much a write-off. You just have to go for it, even if they end up using 20 engines.”

Christian Horner seems to have a pretty big engine budget…

“I want what Fernando had for breakfast this morning!”

Jenson Button was (rightly) not as confident about scoring points in Spain as team-mate Fernando Alonso

“First of all, apologies, it comes with a red suit, those two guys, they haven’t asked me a single question in the last four years!”

Vettel jokes with Hamilton and Nico Rosberg having been asked four questions in a row in the post-qualifying press conference before anyone addressed the two drivers on the front row

“You all get to see me grumpy.”

Daniel Ricciardo wasn’t smiling so much after qualifying tenth

“Romain, if you don't do that you'll blow the engine up.”

Romain Grosjean is told in no uncertain terms how bad his gearbox issue is

“I certainly owe them some beers!”

Grosjean believes a few pints of Estrella is the way to make up for hitting a few members of his crew during a pit stop

“The girls!”

Lewis Hamilton when asked what he is particularly looking forward to in Monaco

“He stole my answer, there.”

Sebastian Vettel agrees

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.