The pressure was on Paul di Resta, after he was granted a race seat following a full season of shadowing Force India. Ousting Liuzzi from the team, di Resta put in a great qualifying performance to finish ahead of teammate Sutil. He lined up on the grid 14th.

He put in a good, strong race in the mid-field and finished outside of the points but following the disqualification of both Saubers, Paul picks up a single point on his F1 debut.

Di Resta is keen to just keep on learning though, saying: "I did make a few mistakes, especially on in-laps with the procedures that you have to go through. It didn't look so much from the outside but I lost enough time to make a difference of me challenging other people. But it's new and so long as I don't make the same mistake twice, I can move on from that."