FM:
As I said I feel very motivated. I want to keep the momentum which was fantastic in the last three races and we need to keep the same focus. If it is possible to win we need to do everything we can, but if it is not possible we need to finish in a good position and bring home as many points as we can. We know that can be very important at the end of the season.
Q: (Fréderic Ferrett –
l'Equipe)
Sébastien, what's your feeling before Monaco? Are you excited by the new car and this non-typical circuit or are you afraid of having an accident and using up some spares?
SB:
Well, if you start the weekend being afraid of making mistakes, then you shouldn't be there. You need to have fun here to be quick and you need to feel confident, you need to enjoy yourself in the car, otherwise you push against your nature and that's the best way to make mistakes. Obviously for me it's a place I've always loved, I always loved street circuits because it's a very fine feeling and very fine perception to try and get it right, and you pursue that all weekend, and when you put it all together at the right moment, it usually goes quite quick and it's an awesome feeling. I think there's nothing more exciting to me than the best qualifying lap you can achieve in Monaco, it's always extremely tense but also very satisfying if you get it done. We have a new car, I think it's a big step forwards in terms of performance. All I can hope for is that it materialises on the track and that we have a good weekend. I'm really pumped, obviously it's the one, along with the French Grand Prix, that means a bit more to me than any other and yeah, I want to do well.
Q: (Randy Phillips –
The Gazette)
Sébastien, two questions: can you talk about the transition from Champ Car to
F1 and also touch on the fact that, in a couple of weeks, you're going to go back to very familiar territory in Montreal?
SB:
Well, the transition's been quite good. Obviously it's very different and I am very happy that we had so much time to adapt over the winter. It's not a start from zero but you have to kind of re-set yourself and try to learn on a different basis. We have had plenty of time, now the first third of the season is nearly over and it feels good. We've had some ups and downs but globally it's been very enjoyable. As you said, now we're coming to places I really like and know: Monaco, then Canada, then the French Grand Prix, so hopefully it's going to be a fast period for us. Montreal is very much a track where I've been extremely quick in Champ Car. It's not always been very good to me but, hopefully, the bad years are behind us. The year before last we finally won and yeah, it's going to be good to be back over there.
Q: (Randy Phillips –
The Gazette)
Felipe, how wide open is this championship this year in your mind? Do you see four or five drivers really in the thick of it through the whole season?
FM:
Well, I think it will be very competitive, for sure. For the moment it looks as if it's between Ferrari and
McLaren and, maybe, Robert [Kubica] is doing a great job as well. He can be very competitive so I would maybe put these four drivers in the fight, including Heikki [Kovalainen] maybe, who had some bad luck in the last races but he has a good car and he can be competitive as well. I think it will be between
Ferrari, McLaren and maybe Robert.
Q: (Livio Oricchio –
O Estado de Sao Paulo)
Question to all four of you: in the very near future, on 3 June, we will have a very important meeting in Paris. What will be the best decision the members of the
FIA can make for Formula One?
SB:
No comment. It's none of my business.
GF:
Well, already next year there is going to be a good chance with slick tyres, with much less downforce. It's already a good thing to do, interesting for sure. In my case it would be nice to have a more equal car from the first team to the last one…
FM:
I think it will be great on slick tyres as well.
