Drivers: Timo Glock (Toyota), Nick Heidfeld (BMW-Sauber), Nico Rosberg (Williams), Adrian Sutil (Force India) and Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing)

Questions from the floor

Q:
(Frederic Ferret – L'Equipe) Sebastian, how do you feel this year coming to Germany as a star?

Sebastian Vettel:
I don't consider myself as a star. It is always nice to come here. It is very special for all five of us to take part in the German Grand Prix being German you know, it is our home grand prix. It is similar for an Englishman to drive around Silverstone, I think as it is special. I have had a lot of races here at the Nürburgring in all different categories, Formula BMW, Formula Three and Formula Renault World Series. I like the circuit and it will be my first time around here in an F1 car, so I am definitely looking forward.

Q:
(Luis Fernando Ramos – Racing Magazine) Question to you all: there's this big legend about the Nordschleife here. I want to know your experience driving around it with any car and if you have a wish to one day have a Formula One race here, even if the safety standards would be a little bit different?

Nick Heidfeld:
Yeah, I think I have quite a lot of experience around there. I said earlier, when they opened the new park that the first lap I did here was together with my father, not being able to reach the pedals but just steering a bit. And I would say it ended two years ago when I had the chance to drive around the Nordschleife in an F1 car which was one of the best experiences I've ever had here. I have to say I was surprised how well the track suited the F1 car. Of course it's too dangerous, the run-off areas are not big enough but the corners themselves are great and it was fantastic doing those three laps. Unfortunately, on each of those laps, I had to follow a camera car, so I couldn't go at full speed but I would love to do it any time again.

Timo Glock:
Yeah, so far I didn't have the chance to go around in a race car or in a Formula One car. It would be a dream to do it in a Formula One car, definitely, but I did a couple of laps, privately, with my road car when I was here the first time in 2000/2001 and I have to say it took quite a bit of time to learn the track. It's not an easy one and still now I have no idea about the corners, only when I'm on the track do I know what I have to do. If you talked about a corner, right now, here: no chance. And this makes it the best track in the world and it's just unbelievable and so far I've only done it in a road car with a couple of journalists. I think they had quite a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to doing it in a proper race car.

Adrian Sutil:
Yeah, a fantastic circuit. I would say it's my favourite, the best in the world. I think it's the biggest circuit, there's so much history here but once you go on it, it doesn't matter which car you're in: a slow car, a road car or whatever, it's thrilling and it's incredible to drive these corners, up and down, so many corners. It doesn't matter which car, as I said. I've come here quite a few times, just to do the Nordschleife, sometimes with my road car with some friends. I was here last weekend. I drove down in my own car, did some laps, met up with a friend, another race driver and he was taking me around in his touring car. It was a good experience because he knew the track really well. I know it well but I have never done a race here, so it's a different area. I try to go on it all the time and every race that I've done here I've normally gone for a couple of laps on the Nordschleife on the Wednesday.

Nico Rosberg:
For me, there was just one really nice experience with my dad in 1995 when he was doing DTM. He took us round in an Opel Calibra Turbo, which at the time was the car he was racing and he drove a road car but it was still a very, very fast car and I remember his best friend was sitting in the back seat and my dad knows the track like the back of his hand, he knows every jump, every corner, in his mind, he knows it exactly. So we were going absolutely flat out and I just remember that the guy in the back was shouting so loudly. I think he would have preferred to open the door and jump out at 250kph rather than stay in the car. So it was quite a fun experience.

SV:
As soon as I got my licence, I used the opportunity (to come here) and I did a lap with a road car. I was completely lost but followed a friend and around half a lap I completely lost the brakes and I was lucky not to crash, so I had totally underestimated the performance of normal road car brakes. Then a couple of years later I had another opportunity with a friend who lives just down the road here close to Nürburgring and the Nordschleife. He has an old BMW 3-series, not very powerful but modified, so proper tyres and the chassis tuned a little bit. When there were normal tourists around the track, then it was quite big fun to chase them in this little car and even though you have no power on the straights, you were much faster in the corners. It was fun. I think I had five or six laps. First of all you are surprised how many corners there are and how long one lap really is but I think then you quite quickly get into the rhythm and you kind of recognise the corners more and more, so after five laps you roughly know where you are but it has been a few days and I think I have forgotten most of it but it would be nice to come back and do a couple of laps.

Q:
(Asen Stoyanov – Monitor Daily, Bulgaria) I would like to ask everybody what is your opinion about the possibility of having a Bulgarian Grand Prix in the next two or three years because tomorrow there will be negotiations with Mr Ecclestone?

TG: