HK:
It felt pretty normal. Like I said, I would not have come here if I did not feel I was in 100 per cent fitness. Already at the end of last week I was feeling back to normal and this week I have been able to do normal physical preparation, if anything a bit tougher, just to test the body and to make sure that there are no headaches or no effects from the impacts. It has been all going very well. Still I must say the first few corners on Friday I was feeling a little bit how everything is, but straight away I felt it was okay and after that I just tried to attack the maximum I could.
Q:
It was interesting to see you and your team-mate choose different types of
Bridgestone tyre going into Q3. Can you talk us through that a little bit.
HK:
I think it is a tricky one this weekend. At some point of the weekend and sometime whenever I go out, however the tyre is, they feel good or not good, so it is very difficult to make your mind up. Hopefully at least it looks like I made the right decision in qualifying. But we will see tomorrow, hopefully the trend continues but like Felipe said it is going to be very tricky. It is very easy to make a mistake and if conditions, the temperature or the wind changes a little bit it can mislead you a little bit.
Q:
Lewis, you chose the harder of the two Bridgestone tyres and a very nice moment was captured on television when the back-end jumped out going through turn right. We called it nice, but you probably didn’t.
Lewis Hamilton:
No, not really. It was a tough qualifying session for me. Obviously at the beginning I had a fantastic lap in Q1. In Q2 I struggled a little bit on the option tyre and therefore I opted for the prime tyre as I thought perhaps it would be a more consistent tyre especially through the lap. I guess I made the wrong decision.
Q:
You say you made the wrong decision but to be that near on the prime tyre it was a pretty impressive lap.
LH:
It was not too bad. I struggled in my first Q3 lap, it was terrible. I think I was in the 1:29s. The second one for sure was an improvement but still it was not quick enough.
Q:
How do you see the Vodafone
McLaren Mercedes race pace relative to Ferrari?
LH:
I think we have got a good package this weekend and as myself and Heikki have shown we are up there with the Ferraris and I think we should be able to push them hard in the race.
Press conference
Q:
Felipe, three poles, can you make it three wins?
