Drivers: Felipe Massa (Ferrari),
Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) and
Jarno Trulli (Toyota).
TV Unilaterals.
Q:
Congratulations Felipe with a win from the front row. Kimi led early on until his problem but you were a conclusive winner by the end.
Felipe Massa:
It was fantastic; I did not expect that. Sometimes you need a little bit of luck, and today I had a little bit of luck with what happened to Kimi and his exhaust. Fortunately he could finish the race but it was, for sure, a good present.
I was already quite comfortable in second position as he had a very quick pace and I am sure it would have been very difficult for me to pass him. It was a great race and we showed our performance here. For sure, we don't know the performance from our competitors because they were a little bit behind, but I think we are in the right direction.
The team did a fantastic job – all the suppliers, Shell especially, because all the time we need to bring good fuel and good lubricants as well, so it was a great job from everybody. I am very happy because now we are a lot more in the championship. We still need to work a lot, but we are [heading] in the right direction.
Q:
It did start to rain towards the end. Tell us about the track conditions.
FM:
It was very difficult over there because sometimes there were some drops and you could feel straightaway that the track was not the same anymore, so I was always slowing even more than I needed because I had a very good gap; I was not risking anything. At the end of the race it was not raining very heavily, so anyway it was a good drive and a fantastic job from the team.
Q:
You said Kimi had fantastic pace but from the outside looking in, it looked like you had a couple of laps in-hand in terms of fuel. How do you think it might have gone?
FM:
I had two laps difference in terms of fuel, but in two laps you cannot be three tenths slower. I was always kind of three tenths slower, so I saw that it was going to be difficult to beat him as you need to be a similar pace or maybe one tenth slower. That was not the case. I saw he had a great pace and a bit better balanced car and I didn't want to risk it. Even second was a great result, but first is even better.
Q:
Kimi, I guess you are delighted to score points in a race where you had a relatively serious mechanical failure on the car..?
