Q: (Heinz Prüller – ORF).
Can I ask you a private question: it’s Mothers’ Day on Sunday, can I have a few words from you about your early days, the first help your mother gave you, maybe sacrificing or giving you your first car to drive, helping you in your career, whatever?
JB:
Whoops. Is it Mothers’ Day on Sunday? OK. I think we can say that our mums have been a big part of our lives. Yeah, my Mum is a big fan of racing… you can ask her, she’s going to be in Monaco. She’s been a big fan of my racing, been a big supporter. She’s kept my feet on the ground for sure.
KN:
Right, I didn’t know that, I’m afraid. Yeah, when I was doing go-karting my mother was always taking me to the track and taking me home again. She was helping me a lot, so that was the biggest contribution from my mother.
HK:
Well, obviously she’s always been very interested in what all of the kids in our family are doing and she’s always supported myself. I think on Sunday she was actually working while I was racing. My dad called her and told her that ‘Heikki’s had an accident’ and she was like ‘OK’. And then she got home and actually saw what happened and she went a bit crazy, but she’s just about recovered now. I think I should try to give her a better Mothers’ Day present rather than a call from hospital to say ‘I had a crash.’
RK:
Well, I think a mum is quite an important person for everybody here, one of the most important in my life and thanks to my mum and my father I am here.
Q: (Flavio Vanetti – Corriere della Sera).
Jenson, it is said that
Honda didn’t want the
Super Aguri team any longer. What can you say about that, and how bad is it for
Formula One to lose a team during the season?
JB:
Personally, I think you need to speak to Oshima-san or Nick Fry who will be here over the weekend. They will be able to give you a much better answer than I can. But obviously for the drivers, for Takuma and Anthony, I’m very sorry for them, because I’m sure it’s very difficult doing the first few races and then not having a job racing in
F1 from then on, so really just sorry to those guys and hopefully they can get back into Formula One in the future.
Q: (Dominic Fugere – Le Journal de Montreal).
To go back to the safety barrier, would you guys feel happier if you had a safety barrier which didn’t have bits and pieces flying off; that there was just foam behind a steel wall as is being used in America?
JB:
I think the angles at which we hit the wall are far greater than what they do in America, on the ovals. I think if any of us had hit a safer barrier, it wouldn’t have been that safe, the speed and the angle at which we would have hit it. What do you think, Heikki?
HK:
Yeah, I agree with that answer exactly. I think we probably should look more individually at the most dangerous corners. We can see ourselves which are the most critical places and probably make decisions accordingly and it’s not that straightforward, just adding some kind of wall here and everywhere. It’s not that simple. For myself, at Turn Nine in Barcelona, it worked very well this time and we’ve just got to see if we can do anything better and look at other corners as well.
Q: (Marco Degl’Innocenti – La Gazzetta dello Sport).
I’m not sure I caught what you said before: you said that your first memory after the accident was in the hospital? But we saw you raising your hand when they took you away from the circuit. At that moment, what were you thinking? Were you not awake?
