Villeneuve was pleased with his fourth-place finish saying that despite making a bad start, his strategy allowed him to run quicker when no back markers were holding him up. After Button's fifth position at the race, the Williams team principal Frank Williams said of his performance, "Jenson really excelled himself again driving in difficult circumstances at the end of the race and under a lot of pressure". Mika Salo scored points for the third time in the season, having scored fifth in Monaco. He said while he was happy, he struggled with excessive oversteer in the track's high speed corners.