Drivers: Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing), Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing)

Questions from the floor:


Q: (Sana Bagersh - Abu Dhabi Tempo)
What are each of you going to do between now and tomorrow's race, to prepare mentally or physically? Any specially rituals, any relaxation techniques?

Sebastian Vettel:
Sleep. It's quite late already. I think everyone has his own way to get prepared. Obviously everyone is trying to get a good night's sleep, rest, then tomorrow. I don't know what the others do, if they have a dance or whatever. I think, for myself, dancing for rain would be pretty useless here, but yeah, just trying to go through. Obviously later we will know a little bit more about strategy and then just trying to prepare, to focus on the start and then seeing how the race goes.

Lewis Hamilton:
Yeah, same for me really. A little bit different to some of the other tracks. The climate change: it's so much hotter here, so the race will be very tough tomorrow, so you could perhaps focus on the preparation a little bit more in terms of the amount of rest you get, the fluids through the night, drinking plenty. I will probably have to make a pit stop during the night, because you've just got to drink as much as you can for the race tomorrow. And then just good food, we're staying in town and I'm just going to enjoy myself, make sure I enjoy the weather, might sit on the beach, just relaxing things. I've got the girlfriend with me, so just relax.

Mark Webber:
Yup, pretty similar: yeah, good sleep, good food and I get to the track as late possible tomorrow. No point in getting in too early. But generally the GP2 cars have been my wake-up call at the hotel, so I will sleep until they start up. But it's very easy for us, we're staying close here, so relax, there's no hassle with traffic like some other venues we have like Brazil or in Shanghai. We have a lot of tracks like that where there's a bit of a palaver getting to the track but here it's a lot more straightforward, so that helps our preparation.

Q: (Tomas Richter - TV Nova)
It looks like the most difficult corners are those before the hotel and turn one. The race will be long and hot; first of all do you agree and secondly do you expect some difficulties during the race?

MW:
Yeah, you're right, there are some difficult corners in the last sector, there's no question about it, it's easy to get in there a little bit deep and not hit the apex cleanly. Turn one, you're right, is the same. It's easy to get a little bit out of the track there but all the guys are fit these days, there should be no problems tomorrow night. It's a pretty long race but we've had worse. There are a lot of straights you can relax on, so this track is not that physically demanding, it's just a bit warm.

SV:
As Mark said, there are some difficult corners, not only turn one and 15, 16, 17. Turn one is still outstanding; it's quite quick and it's blind, so it's very easy to overshoot, to make a mistake at the entrance and you have a long straight following, obviously turn two, three, four which is flat, but whatever you lose there you pay the price for. 15, 16, 17 is easy to lose the car on the entrance and if you go wide it's very easy to go off-line and then it's quite dirty, like everywhere else, but you lose a lot of time easily. Let's see tomorrow. I think the start is the key, turn one, and then it will be interesting going down the long straight. Obviously I hope I will be ahead of Lewis or at least right on his back, and then have a good space. I hope that Mark and myself will have good space to whoever comes behind us.

LH:
I don't particularly want to comment just on those corners. I think turn one is obviously very important for the beginning of the race but it's fairly straightforward. The great part of this track is that even though we do have a couple of high speed corners, maybe it will be tough to follow through two, three, four but it's not difficult to stay behind someone through five, six, seven, so that means you can be close to them and have a good chance of towing them down the back straight. Also braking into eight and nine, again it's easy to be quite close and then relatively easy to have another shot going down the other back straight. Clearly, then, it gets a bit tighter and a little bit harder to follow, but I think it should provide some good racing, being able to be a little bit closer than normal. You normally have the long flowing corners and you lose a little bit and then you have this long straight and you never really catch up. I hope – I feel it's designed quite well.

Q: (Vajta Balazs - Autosport Es Formula)
For all three drivers: the last two or three days we've basically heard only positive words about the track: how great it is, the facilities and everything else. I know it's also very hard to name negative aspects about yourself, but can you name or point out some negative points about the track?

MW: