LH:
No, I don’t. I get on very well with Heikki and I think an important thing, which showed last year, whether or not you saw it, myself and Fernando worked very very closely in terms of developing the car and pushing the team forward and I think it’s important to have both drivers doing that and so I feel that I share equal responsibility with Heikki. Today was unfortunate but there’s no doubt that we will go to the next race, we will keep pushing together. It’s not a one man team, there’s a huge amount of us but especially me and Heikki need to keep pushing and try and bring the points in for everyone.
Q: (Heikki Kulta –
Turun Sanomat)
Felipe, Bahrain seemed to be your circuit, in a way, compared to Kimi. Do you think that Turkey will be the same for you?
Felipe Massa:
To be honest, it doesn’t mean that because you won last year, you are stronger on the track. I feel strong on whatever track we go to and I feel that I can win any time. You need to find the opportunities, you need to pull everything together to win. For sure, here Kimi did a great job, especially in qualifying with a good strategy and the picture was exactly the opposite to Bahrain, so I think it’s important to bring the points home, as I said, and start to build a gap in comparison to our competitors. Whatever opportunity we get to win, we need to take it and today was not possible, but I’m happy with second and I’m sure it’s very important points for the team and for both of us.
Q: (Livio Oricchio –
O Estado de Sao Paulo)
Kimi, were you afraid at the second pit stop when you were two seconds slower than Felipe? Did you think you could lose your lead?
KR:
You’re always thinking about it because you’re going slower and the other guys are going full speed on the circuit but it was only because there was traffic coming when my car was being refuelled and I needed to wait, because there were two cars, Lewis and a
BMW at the same time, so I just needed to wait. Once they went, I could leave my pit. You cannot see but the team always tries to tell me [what’s going on] and I had a reasonable gap, so I didn’t really worry about it too much, but you would rather go when you can and not have to wait.
Q: (Rodrigo Franca –
VIP Magazine)
Question for Kimi and Felipe:
Michael Schumacher was here all weekend. How much did he help you and Felipe to win this race, and during the tests and during the briefings etc?
KR:
I saw him yesterday for the first time, so I think he’s helpful for the team overall. During the season he did some tests but I do my work with the engineers and he’s not involved. He’s a part of the team and he’s always been there, so if we wanted some help from him, he would help, for sure.
FM:
I think he did a good job, for sure, last week, working for next year on the slick tyres and so many things on the car. I think he was very useful there. I didn’t see him so much this weekend but as Kimi said, I’m sure he works very closely with our engineers and Michael will not come one day and start to tell us to do a lot of things that we have to do. That’s not how we work. As I said, he’s very important in the team but we work together in many areas, not just coming here and saying that we need to stop.
Q: (Richard
Williams –
The Guardian)
Lewis, you started on the clean side. Could you talk a little bit more detail about the start? You came across behind Robert. Did he hesitate to give you the chance to go on the inside of him, and was there any possibility that Heikki touched you?
LH:
No, the start was quite straightforward. I got good traction, I just immediately moved to the right. I noticed that I seemed to have good traction and seemed to be moving at a similar pace to Robert. I moved to the right, I think Heikki was quite a bit away from me. I didn’t see him at all and I didn’t feel any problems with my car and I think Robert was focusing on going to the left perhaps, to slipstream one of these guys, but I was carrying so much speed that there was no time for him to react and go back to the right. I don’t think he hesitated but I don’t think he was expecting it.
Q: (Heikki Kulta –
Turun Sanomat)
Kimi, in 2005 you won the race almost in a similar fashion and you said after the race that it was very boring. How was the feeling now? Was it as boring as it was then?
