Drivers: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), Jarno Trulli (Toyota), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)

Questions from the floor

Q: (Frederic Ferret – L'Equipe)
Jarno, as your future seems uncertain, does it give you extra motivation, especially for these three races?

JT:
No, my future is not uncertain.

Q: (Takaharu Kusuda – Book People Atlas)
Sebastian, perfect victory, you had a safe gap but then the safety car came out. What were you thinking, what were you feeling when you were following the safety car, and when you passed the finish line, what was your feeling as you gained the victory?

SV:
Obviously, before the safety car phase, when you're in the lead by roughly ten seconds, it's the last thing you hope for, because with ten laps to go, anything can still happen but you kind of take it easy and bring the car home. Obviously, when the safety car came out the gap was gone, and during the safety car phase, it was all about – especially when you pass the accident – not to pick up any debris and destroy your car or damage your car, damage the tyres, make sure you don't get a puncture. Other than that, just try to cool the car, cool the engine, cool the brakes and make sure you warm it up before you start going again, so before the restart, and make sure your tyres are hot enough to start again, to be able to push right away. Obviously, that's crucial here. When you've got cold tyres, less tyre pressure, then the car is bottoming more which can make it quite tricky but I think we did a very good job, speaking to my engineer on the radio all the time. Then a couple of laps more and I crossed the line, obviously looked to the right to see the team and celebrate with them and looked to the left and saw the grandstand, all the people going crazy, and to be honest, maybe I was a little bit too slow for TV coverage on the way back to the pits, but I didn't care. There were people all around the circuit, it's fantastic, you know. You come here in the morning and people are already queuing on the way to the paddock, just to say hi and to wave and wish you all the best. It's great. So I was enjoying the lap back to the pits and obviously screaming over the radio and all that stuff, so very, very happy. When you cross the line you start to realise what has happened and it's fantastic, so very pleased.

Q: (Marco Degli'Innocenti – La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Sebastian, at this stage of the championship, looking back at past races, which are the points that you are most missing now?

SV:
Looking back I think we have had a great season. Obviously, we should have been more consistent in order to fight for the championship right now, it was a little bit too much up and down. Sometimes things didn't go our way. That's part of racing, I guess, it happens. We made some mistakes, we've had some trouble during the season, it can happen, but obviously when you want to fight properly for the championship, then they shouldn't happen. But nevertheless, I think it was a very good season so far. The car is fantastic. We had three one-twos, there's not much more to say. Looking at the championship positions, we could have collected more points, as I said, been more consistent, less up and down. In more than three or four places we had the pace to win and we didn't, so… Sometimes it goes in your favour, other times it doesn't.

Q: (Luis Fernando Ramos – Racing Magazine)
Sebastian, how do you believe the next two race tracks may suit your car compared to the Brawns?

SV:
Well, to be honest I was a little surprised to see the Brawns struggling here. Generally, a good car is a good car, and as they have proven, especially at the beginning of the season, their car is very competitive. I think we were all a little bit surprised. Looking at us, looking at our car, I think we should be in good shape for the next two races. Brazil is a track we know, Abu Dhabi is unknown for everyone, so we don't know, but I think independent from the circuit type, we have always been competitive. Just looking at the last two races, we've been on totally different circuits: Singapore was rough, bumpy, a street circuit and very low speed and here, high speed. I think especially the parts we got for Singapore and a little bit here again, we made another step forward with our car, so it should be good. I can tell you afterwards.

Q: (Juha Päätalo – Financial Times Germany)
Sebastian, ten points for you today, one for Jenson (Button); it was like a tailor-made result for you. You haven't given up the fight even though it was really, really tough after the last race, so what kind of feeling does it give you? How much more confidence do you have regarding the championship now?

SV:
First of all, I'm very happy to be in Formula One. The cars are fantastic, but more so, I'm here to challenge and in the end we want to find out who is the best, the best in one race and the best over the whole season. That's why I am here, and ultimately that's my target. As I've said many times already, I will fight until the end, until the last breath. It was obviously a good day for us, two more races like this and it's looking better, but we will see. I think our task from now on is pretty straightforward: we have to push ourselves to the maximum and try to win, get as many points as we can and everything else is not in our hands. You can ask the man sitting next to me (Lewis Hamilton) thinking two years back. I think Kimi had quite a big gap (to Lewis) with two races to go. Everyone said to Lewis it will not be a problem, sitting in one of the most competitive cars, just get a couple of points, but you can see sometimes, as I said before, things just don't work your way. Anything is possible. The bottom line is that we're here to fight.

Q: (Joris Fioriti – AFP)
Sebastian, what else can you do to win the championship? What is the next step you can take to win it?

SV:
As I said before, it's straightforward: win the next two races and then see what the others are doing. We just have to look at ourselves, trying to increase our own performance, get our maximum together, and if that's good enough to win, that's very good, if it's good enough for second we have to finish second and not third, fourth, fifth or not at all. So we will see. The next circuit we know, we were good there last year, this year we go there with a stronger car, so it should be better and the last race in Abu Dhabi is a bit unknown. I've driven it on the simulator a bit but it's difficult to know what to expect.

Q: (Nobuo Nakajima – Sankei Sports)
Jarno, just after the race you were enjoying it but seemed a little bit reluctant. If so, what is the reason: the illness at the beginning of the week or because you couldn't win in front of the Japanese fans or you couldn't before Mr Toyoda?

JT:
I think my aim, when it comes to the season, was to win a race and so far I didn't manage it. I'm obviously happy to be on the podium, but I've had many podiums but what I'm really missing at the moment is a win, a win for my team and for Toyota. It's obviously great to give them a fantastic result in front of their home crowd, but I'm the kind of person who wants more. I fixed my target and I'm extremely determined to get my target and obviously I'm a little bit – I wouldn't say disappointed – but I wish I could fight for a win, but honestly, talking today, Sebastian was untouchable. I realised that in qualifying but even though I didn't give up and I really tried to push for pole position at least but today there was nothing I could do. Anyway, I should be happy, I'm not saying that (I'm unhappy) but I'm missing a win.