Q:
Felipe, congratulations. Your best position here is fifth – once from pole last year and once from 21st a couple of years ago. What are your feelings about tomorrow particularly the start if you remember from last year?
FM:
My thought is to change the best result I have, hopefully we can repeat what we did today which was a very good job and a very good lap. It was very clean with no mistakes and taking away the maximum from the car. I was pretty happy with our day. In Q2 I couldn’t manage to do a good lap. I was just struggling to find the right grip. Also I was too conservative. But I learned everything I did wrong in Q2 and managed to do a great lap in Q3.
Q:
Presumably total confidence in the engine. No problems and no further feelings from last weekend?
FM:
For sure, I am looking forward to having a very reliable car. It was a very bad result we had in the last race, not just the engine but also the race itself was a problem and the qualifying with Kimi. It was definitely a weekend to forget. We think we know what we are doing now. We think we know how it is going to be during the race in terms of reliability with all the preparations the engineers are doing, so hopefully we can have two very reliable races now with the same engine.
Q:
What are your weather predictions? How much were you slightly worried about rain in qualifying?
FM:
I think everybody was a little bit worried but I just managed to be one of the first cars to go out just to try to at least make a lap in case something really different happens and the rain comes. At least you have a lap and you can jump to the next qualifying. But at the end of the day the rain didn’t come, although at the end of Q3 we had a couple of drops but it didn’t affect the track, so it was no problem at all.
Q:
What are your weather predictions and how much were you worried about rain in qualifying?
FM:
I think everybody was a bit worried but we just managed to be one of the first cars to go out, just to try to at least make a lap if something really different happened, if the rain came, so at least you would have a lap and maybe you can jump to the next qualifying. At the end of the day, the rain didn’t come. At the end of Q3 we had a couple of drops but it didn’t affect the track, so it was no problem at all.
Q:
Also on the front row,
Kimi Räikkönen, winner in 2003 here. At least it must be very encouraging to be on the front row after the Australian problems.
KR:
Yeah, for sure, I think so for the whole team. We’ve been working hard and we’ve got one and two, so it couldn’t have gone better. For sure, I would rather have been in first place but I couldn’t get the tyres working as well as in the second qualifying. I think we still have a strong position for the race, so we will see what we can do.
Q:
Who do you prefer to race, your team-mate or someone from another team?
