Post-race press conference - Hungarian GP - Pt.2.

Drivers: Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren), Michael Schumacher (Ferrari), Ralf Schumacher (Toyota)

Questions from the floor:

Q: (Heikki Kulta - Turun Sanomat)
Kimi, you have your first anniversary today. Was this the best gift you could give to Jenni?

Kimi Raikkonen:
Yes, I think so. Maybe I could give something else. We'll see what happens this evening.

Q: (Juha P??talo - Financial Times Germany)
Kimi, you seem to be really relieved today. Tell me about your feelings, standing up there and seeing your wife and family down there, waiting for you, your Mum and Dad are here as well.

KR:
Yes, of course I was happy, because when we came for this weekend, we knew that it was going to be very difficult to have a good result and we came out with a win, so I'm more than happy, and then it's the best way to go on holiday so why not be happy.

Q:
Kimi, did your team ever consider doing four pit-stops?

KR:
No, we were considering two or three pit-stops. We chose to do three in the end.

Q: (Frank Schneider - Abendzeitung)
Question to all three of you: What will you do for the few days before the next race, holidays or what?

KR:
I don't know yet. We will see what happens, but something fun.

Michael Schumacher:
Prepare myself for Turkey.

Ralf Schumacher:
Yes, just a few days off with the family, that's all.

Q: (Juha P??talo)
Michael, how was the feeling to be able to fight for the win for the first time for a long time? At Imola, and now again?

MS:
Good. It wasn't long enough to enjoy the feeling. Honestly speaking, when you fight, you don't think very much as to whether you are fighting for a win, for second or for third position. You just concentrate on what you do and on the fight itself. Then, at some stage, if you are maybe sure what position you are in, then the feeling is obviously different. I was only concentrating on that.

Q: (Mike Doodson - Auto Action)
It's a question for Michael. Yesterday Ross Brawn said that during the testing of the tyres, sometimes this year you've felt you've found a tyre in testing but when you've come to a race it hasn't been as good as you expected it to be. I'm interesting to know how long it took to develop this tyre, is it the tyre to look at for the future, and do you feel that having unlimited tyre testing helps you to develop tyres sooner than you would have done otherwise?

MS:
The fact is that we have had tyres at some races which didn't seem to suit the circuit and we have been able to find a direction to at least suit here and now we have to find out whether it's going to suit the other circuits too, whether it's a direction or not. It's not about the quantity or quality of testing.

Q: (Mike Doodson)
Did this tyre come up suddenly in one test or is it a process of development that produced the tyre you used today?

MS:
It's a process.

Q: (Peter Farkas - Auto Motor)
Michael, did you make your tyre selection yesterday thinking that it would be colder today than it actually was? And did you have a problem with your rear tyres as in Hockenheim a week ago?

MS:
You have, naturally, to make a [tyre] decision by Saturday morning, eight 'o' clock, I think, which means basically you already decide on Friday which, after the work Rubens had done, it was pretty clear what we wanted to do on the tyres, and the tyres mainly didn't have enough grip at the end. No, the weather didn't have anything to do with it. It was clear it was going to be like that.

Q: (Frank Schneider)
Is it something special to have a brother on the podium?

MS:
It always is, yes. We have been celebrating plenty of podiums together. I think it's the first time we've been on the rostrum together since he's been with Toyota, so it's obviously more special for him now.

RS:
Nothing to add.
Q: (Flavio Vanetti - Corriere della Sera)
Kimi, can we consider this victory as a compensation for the bad luck you had in Hockenheim or at the N?rburgring?

KR:
Not really. Of course it always seems to be that when we have a bad race we stop from leading a race and we seem to win the next race and Alonso is giving the ten points back to us. It's the way we're going forwards and backwards, but I wouldn't say that there's any feeling that we've got something back. We worked hard for the win, maybe in one way we were lucky... as a team, we were unlucky anyhow because we should have had two cars in the first two places. We worked hard and we got a good result for it.

Q: (Jose Maria Rubio - RV Racing Press)
Ralf, what happened with Fernando in the first corner, did you see Fernando when you closed in?

RS:
I what?

Q:
What happened with Fernando?

RS:
Nothing happened. I turned into the first corner. Was he there?

Q:
You touched Alonso's front wing.

RS:
Did I? I didn't realise that. Sorry.