Q: (Marco Evangelisti – Corriere dello Sport).
Robert, you said yesterday that to win the championship is not your target this year. Are you still of the same opinion, looking at your pace?
Robert Kubica:
I think that for the second time in a row we were a bit slower than
Ferrari, and of course, if there is the opportunity we will fight for it but our goal in the team is to win races and to make consistent progress. It's also true that most probably if I had finished the race in Australia I would be right there on the top, so I will do my best and I will try but this is not our goal for this season.
Q: (Michael Schmidt – Auto Motor und Sport).
Robert, where exactly at the start was the problem, the first few metres or later on in the acceleration process?
RK:
As soon as I released the clutch I was just standing still, spinning wheels and I was standing still, the wheels were turning and I couldn't get traction. That was my main problem.
Q: (Juha Päätalo – Financial Times Germany).
Robert, you seem really disappointed with what happened on the second lap. Why are you so disappointed, and the second question is, I think it was the second race in a row when you had bad wheel spin at the start? Do you have any explanation for that?
RK:
I'm not disappointed, I'm just saying that we could manage it better and maybe we would not have lost second place there, but it happens and that's all. The start in Malaysia was a different problem to here.
Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo).
Kimi, when you tried to approach Massa, did you try to put pressure on him? Did you really believe that you could overtake him?
KR:
We knew when the other was stopping, so I knew that I was going to stop earlier. Of course, you always try to overtake but when you stop first, there's a very small chance. I was just pushing as normal and tried to get close to him. Sometimes when I got close he would pull away, so it didn't really change much overall during the race. So after the last pit stop I just cruised around, so there was nothing I could really do.
Q: (Patos Seitanidis - Drive Magazine).
A question for Felipe: you have had two difficult weeks with a lot of criticism but you came here and won, the same thing has happened last year in Bahrain. How can you manage to react so well under extreme pressure?
FM:
Well, I've had many bad days in my life. It's not the first one and it won't be the last one, so I was really in a difficult moment of my career but not in
Formula One, maybe when I was fired in Sauber, maybe when I had money to do one race and then if I didn't win I couldn't do the second one in Formula
Renault. It was much more difficult than my situation now, so I don't care what's happened over the last weeks. I think it is part of the job for the journalists to write. They need to write something, so one day they write about you and one day they write about someone else and that's life. So it won't change anything. It won't change what you think, the team you race for is thinking, and that's perfect. Our job inside the team is fantastic and that's important. The other things are not important, so that's why for sure if I need to chose I prefer people who say good things about me, not bad things, but even if they say bad things, I prefer to hear what my team thinks about me and not other people, so I'm fine and for sure I have got a lot of energy for this race from Brazil, from my family, my wife and that's important.
Q: (Andrea Cremonesi – La Gazzetta dello Sport).
I have one question for Felipe, one for Robert. Robert, is it true that you had some problems with the radio in the last part of the race? And Felipe, we saw Jacques Villeneuve in your pit during these last few days. Could you explain to us how your relationship is with him; in the end he brought you luck?
