Questions from the floor
Q: (Frédéric Ferret –
l'Equipe)
Fernando, how important has it been to finish first this afternoon?
Fernando Alonso:
No, not very important. I prefer to finish first tomorrow afternoon. I think today I just need to feel happy with the car, to test something that we plan every weekend, and sometimes you have the opportunity to have a clear answer, sometimes not, and today everything went perfectly, apart from the failure of the engine this morning, and in the afternoon we planned two or three set-up changes, we did them and we had some positive answers, so we're happy because of that, not because of the time.
Q: (
TV Nova)
Nico, you made a mistake in Canada, yet you are penalised at the French Grand Prix. Does that seem to be a little unfair and are there any considerations to maybe change this rule for the future?
Nico Rosberg:
Well, I'm not sure. At the end of the day, if you just look at my case, I didn't do anything to anybody else, because Lewis was already out of the race anyway, so that would be a bit unfair. But you have to look at the whole picture. Me and Lewis did the same thing, more or less so, if he deserved to get a ten places, then I think I deserve to get that too, unfortunately.
Q: (Dan Knutson –
National Speed Sport News)
You tried out the new safety car procedure after practice. What do you think of it?
Sebastien Bourdais:
It was obviously without an incident on the race track, so it was difficult, there wasn't a safety car in place. It seems to be functioning, at least in my car it was. You just have to basically… in the end you can only go as fast as the car that's going in front of you which was my case. We will see how it plays out.
NR:
It's a bit strange at first because you have to look at your dash (board) quite a lot also, and at the same time you're probably going to be passing the incident and everything. But we will see. They really need to find something to improve the current thing, because there's too much chance involved in terms of the result, afterwards. It could be a step forward, we will see.
Q: (Andrea Cremonesi –
La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Fernando, what is the realistic target for this grand prix, and what is your aim for next season?
FA:
For this weekend, we hope to finish in the top five in the race, that's the target. Maybe the podium possibility is not too far but we probably need some luck and to have a very good qualifying tomorrow, and we need to have a think about our strategy and to have something better than the others. If not, our normal place will be fourth or fifth with Hamilton obviously behind us. If he can make up some places and finish in front, maybe fifth or sixth. So we will see what we can do, but for sure we need the points and we are ready to take them.
