I think it was dominated by the track conditions. It was wet in turns two and three and also wet in turn eight, so I was losing a little bit ground on the dry part of the circuit and in those damp parts I was taking much more risk than Sebastian and Felipe and that was it. When the track was completely dry, towards the end, I was slower than Felipe and slower than Kimi as well.

Q:
And a late challenge from Kimi.

FA:
I think more at the end when we put on the intermediate tyres because the track was not wet enough for the intermediates and because we were the first ones to fit the intermediates, on the last two laps they were in quite a bad condition. Kimi was quite close but I think he didn't risk too much because it was not the ideal situation for Ferrari to risk with Kimi and I took the advantage to keep second.

Q:
And this second place caps a great end of season for you.

FA:
Yeah, unbelievable. I think the last half of the season… someone told me yesterday that I was the driver who had scored more points in the last half but unfortunately the championship started in Australia and we were not at a good level there, so I think, again, as always, at the end of the championship you have to learn things and this year we learned that we need to arrive at the first race 100 per cent if you want to fight for the championship. If you want to win races, it's OK, but if you want to be champion you need to be 100 per cent all the way through the championship and we were not, this year. But this podium, as you said, is the perfect end of a good recovery from us, and again, starting sixth, finishing second is much better than we expected two hours ago.

Q:
Kimi, obviously you were catching hard at the end, was it that the tyres really came to you? Was it a struggle early on?

KR:
The first set, especially, was quite difficult. The car didn't want to turn but it was slightly better at the beginning of the second one, the second set of dry tyres, and then it got better all the time, so I was able to catch up. As Fernando said, when the rain came and I got close to him, they told me not to risk anything because if I went off, it would not be good for the team, for Felipe's situation at that moment. For myself it was no difference and the team would have won the championship anyhow, so we just came home third.

Q:
What were the conditions like out there?

KR:
Of course, it was wet at the start but the grip was not too bad, actually. It was trickier on dry tyres when there were some wet patches and I took it very easily at those places. My only mission was to get points for the team. Not the nicest race in the end but we got what we wanted, so that was the most important thing.