Oh yeah. My mum is here for the first time this year. She was meant to come to Monaco but she missed it and also Turkey. But she is happy to be here with all her friends. I invited her out and she seems to be having a great time. I have got all my family here. As always they are giving me 100 per cent confidence and support. I speak to my brother every day before I got out in qualifying and before the race and he always gives me a boost in confidence.

Q:
And it certainly paid off.

LH:
Absolutely.

Q:
Robert, a tremendous duel with Lewis. Obviously BMW Sauber are very much established as firm contenders for the championship now. Would you say that?

RK:
Well, I think our position in the championship in some way gives this idea and also the pace of the car. To be honest it is still not the car to win I think but we are for seven races now in the middle of the pack of the top four cars, some races in front and some races behind. We are four points behind the championship leader, so I think we should consider it. I hope the team will do the maximum to allow me to fight. I am trying to do my best in every single race and we will see. If with three races to go we still have this gap, then it will be good.

Q:
There was quite a margin between yourself and Lewis.

RK:
Lewis was the fastest in all three qualifying sessions, so it looks like he has much better pace than us. Also in qualifying I think there was a six or seven tenths gap which is quite a lot. it is more or less what we have seen also in Monaco and Turkey, so this could be better but we are working on it and we hope we will get closer to them.

Q:
I mentioned the sun going in, did that affect you more than those on the softer tyres?

RK:
I don't think so. The biggest problem is the race track, it's quite a big joke, to have these conditions. We are in qualifying and after three or four laps, the track starts breaking up and it's quite a big lottery. As soon as you miss the apex by ten centimetres you go on the marbles and you lose a second, half a second. It will be a tough race, for sure. I even had two corners where there were some drops of rain but it didn't disturb me at all.

Q:
Kimi, you backed off at the end of that last lap; where do you think you could have ended up?

KR:
No, I was slower than the lap before, so there was no point in pushing any more. I lost all the time in turn ten with these circuit conditions. I think that we have had a very good car all weekend, so it's a bit disappointing to suddenly have it more dependent on the circuit which is breaking up than it being up to the cars and drivers. I'm not really surprised that there is a big difference between the drivers and lap times. If you get it right, you can easily gain half a second or you lose a second. It's a bit of a shame but at least we are in third place and we will see what we can do tomorrow.

Q:
Is there anything the drivers or teams can do about the track conditions?

KR:
Yes, you are always trying to find the cleanest line and sometimes you find it, sometimes you don't. It keeps changing all the time. For sure, if you get it perfectly right and you don't hit the marbles it's not too bad, but unfortunately I never found that line in corner ten and it's not going to be easy tomorrow. We will see what happens.

Q:
As what sort of threat do you see BMW Sauber now?

KR:
We've seen it before. In the last races they've been fast, so for sure I don't see why they shouldn't also be fast tomorrow. Hopefully we have a good race car. I think we have had very good speed until qualifying, so we will see. We will do the best we can and hopefully we can beat them.