Brawn GP

Jenson Button: "I've kept pretty busy with the London Triathlon and then some time to relax with my family and friends but it's seemed like a long time without a race! Valencia is a beautiful city and the track is quite fun and challenging for the drivers with so many turns and the added factor of being surrounded by barriers means you have to maintain your concentration. There´s been a lot of work going on at the factory following our shutdown and with the cars at the front being so close at the moment, it will be an interesting weekend."

Rubens Barrichello: "Valencia is a cool city and a great venue for the European Grand Prix last season. It's a very different type of circuit to the classic image of a street track such as Monaco. The first part of the lap is quick with the long pit straight followed by a curved right-hander before the slower section leading up to the bridge. The second half feels more like a street circuit as you head away from the water and the tight hairpin at Turn 17 is the best overtaking opportunity. The final part of the lap is fast with some sweeping corners before the final tight left-hander."

McLaren Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton: "It´s great to be getting back to business after the four-week break. I´m still buzzing from the win in Hungary and I´m hopeful of being able to carry that pace into the Valencia weekend - particularly with our new upgrades to the car. It´s a very demanding circuit, the kind of place that punishes any mistakes hard. It´s quite tight and relatively slow, so it should suit our package. It´s also very difficult to overtake, as we discovered last year - but, with our KERS, Mercedes-Benz has proved that anything can happen and I´m once again hoping that it will provide the difference in the race."

Heikki Kovalainen: "Having driven the fully updated car for the first time in Hungary last month, it was very encouraging to be able to feel just how much progress the team has made developing MP4-24. We´ve now got a car that´s much easier to drive on the limit, and which really rewards your input. So I´m really looking forward to the European Grand Prix, which, while it won´t suit us as strongly as the Hungaroring, should be another strong opportunity for us to score some more points. I think there´s a lot of potential for the remaining races."

BMW Sauber

Robert Kubica: " I really enjoyed the Valencia circuit a lot. I like the character of stop-and-go tracks. In Valencia you have a lot of long straights followed by narrow corners and long straights again. That means a lot of heavy braking. It was very hot there last year as the track is between concrete walls and there is not a lot of air. These conditions are very tough for the car´s cooling. Last year I performed quite well in Valencia"

Nick Heidfeld: "Valencia is a street circuit, but it doesn´t drive like one. In fact it´s just like one of the modern race tracks. You´re not right up against the buildings, there isn´t the tightness you usually get at street circuits, but there are run-off areas. I´m excited to find out what effect the latest modifications will have on our car. Valencia is a great city, of course, and I´m looking forward to going back to a fine restaurant which I discovered on my last visit."

Williams

Nico Rosberg: "This will only be our second trip to Valencia and I´m looking forward to going back as the organisers have built a really good track. Unlike what you would normally expect from a street circuit, Valencia has a lot of corners but they aren´t tight and twisty, but quite fast and flowing so the whole lap is quite quick. Combined with the temperatures, it can be a demanding race, but I´m prepared."

Kazuki Nakajima: "I´ve spent lots of time on our simulator preparing for Valencia over the course of the year so feel I know the circuit quite well. It´s not a typical street circuit, but you have to be really careful around the lap as there are no run off areas. I think the biggest challenges over the weekend are grip levels as it was quite green when we arrived last year as well as cockpit temperatures."

Toyota

Jarno Trulli: "It's great to have some time off to relax with my family but my passion is racing so it's good to be getting back to the track. Valencia is not such an exciting circuit for me but that doesn't matter so much if we are strong, which we were last year on this track. Unlike somewhere like Monaco, Valencia is actually very fast for a street circuit so that should suit our car pretty well. In fact, it doesn't really feel much like a street circuit at all because it is so much faster than other city tracks. The Valencia track has a different character so it's difficult to predict at this stage but my target is to score as many points as possible."

Timo Glock: "I really enjoy street circuits and I generally perform very well on them. Valencia was tricky last year for me because I had a bad cold and it was a real challenge just to finish the race, so I didn't enjoy the weekend as much as I could have. This year I am determined to really have fun in the car and hopefully finish even higher than I managed in 2008. We know from last year that overtaking is very difficult on this track so qualifying will be particularly important, which is a similar situation to the previous race in Hungary. My goal this weekend is to start as high as possible and give myself the best chance for a good result in the race."

Renault

Fernando Alonso: "Racing at home is always special and Valencia is a beautiful city and a great place to have a race. I've always enjoyed racing on street circuits as they have a special atmosphere and the whole city gets involved in the race. Also, as it's a home race for me I know that there will be amazing support from the fans and I really want to reward them with a good result. As I've said, I would love to fight for the podium, but the main priority is to score points this weekend."

Romain Grosjean: "It's a mix between a street course and a normal circuit because in some places the track is narrow and tricky and in other places it's really wide with lots of run-off. It's not the easiest place to make your debut, but I've always liked street races and enjoy the atmosphere of being in the middle of a city."

Force India

Adrian Sutil: "To be honest, Valencia isn't one of my favourites. It's a street circuit but it doesn't feel like it as the roads are so wide and it's really just fast straights into a hairpin, accelerate out and then another hairpin so you don't get the adrenaline you would at Monaco. This year it could be quite good for us though as we have a big new upgrade. Every upgrade we've introduced so far this year has really made a difference so I have a lot of confidence that this will move us forward as well. The car is getting better and better to drive and with another upgrade I hope we will really be in the midfield now and in the hunt for points."

Giancarlo Fisichella: "The Hungarian Grand Prix was quite a tough race but I was able to have a good, quick middle stint and fight with Kubica and Barrichello, so I hope I will be able to do the same, if not more, in Valencia. Last year it was quite a good race for me, one of my best, as we were genuinely fighting for positions. I quite like the track. For sure it's not the most challenging but if you are fighting for position there are some chances to overtake, which has got to be a positive. We also have a new upgrade for this race, the same step as we had in Silverstone, so I hope we can have a good race and score some points."