At last a team other than Mercedes managed to win a race this year and it was defending champions Red Bull who took the honours. The promise of full power from Renault, plus a minor misstep on the part of Mercedes positioned the soft drinks team on the top step. A first and a third for Red Bull has enabled the gap at the top to close for the first time this year.

A disastrous race for Williams saw them squander 4th and 5th place starting positions, allowing McLaren to pull away in the table. While Lotus' poor qualifying, coupled with hopeless reliability means they drop back behind Toro Rosso, a team they'd only just managed to overhaul at the last race.