Q:
During testing your former team boss Richard Dutton told us how he'd coached you in the section coming out of Bridge going into Priory, keeping way over to the right there.
HK:
Yeah, I don't know if it's exactly the key to pole position but surely I feel it's the best way for me to take that corner, to carry the most speed, and surely I learned a lot from Richard, I learned a lot from Fortec Motorsport earlier on in my career. I still keep in close contact with my old friends. I've been based around here at
Silverstone for many many years, so it's always nice to come back here. We have a lot of families from the team: mechanics' and engineers' families etc. here, so for us it's a special race for sure.
Q:
Before the start on Friday you were 23-1 to win this race, before qualifying you were down to seven to one; don't know what you are now. What about that?
HK:
I don't know, I don't do betting. I try to earn my money in a safer way.
Q:
Mark, your previous best qualifying here in
Formula One was tenth; you seem a bit mystified where this has come from as well.
MW:
We've been quick but we didn't expect to be on the front row. We changed the car overnight and the car was much better this morning. You never, never know what the other guys are doing. You focus on yourself and that's what we've done today. The result for us today has been very, very impressive. The guys have done a really, really good job and it's a credit to them. Obviously the factory's just down the road and everyone's in a good mood and working hard. So for us to be on the front row with these guys is a credit to their efforts. When it comes to the guys that we're racing in the championship - in our championship - we've got a good buffer for tomorrow's start of the race. I'm hoping for a dry race. If it's wet, then we'll deal with that but we seem to be pretty competitive in these conditions, so it's good.
Q:
Can you give us an idea of what had to be changed, what was it you didn't like yesterday?
MW:
Again, working on this last sector, trying to work there and also in Club, eight and nine, trying to get the car a little bit better there, but the wind is so variable and the cars are very sensitive to the wind as all the drivers will tell you. You can't change the world, you generally have to stick with what you know because the conditions do change, so you have to make the most of being consistent with the car and getting the most out of it when the conditions are moving around a bit. That's what we did today. The first run in Q3 was a very poor lap. Other than that, all our laps today have been pretty good.
Q:
Do you think people are gambling towards wet weather settings and wet weather strategy for tomorrow?
MW:
No, I think it could easily be dry, but I've put 200 quid on Heikki at 23-1, so I'm in good shape.
Q:
Given your best finishing position is eighth here, what are the chances tomorrow?
