| Question : What
do you think about the
performance of the Williams cars? |
| M
Schumacher :
If you see the picture where they are now then
it looks like we don't have
the upper at this circuit, which was a little
bit like that last year, we have to
face that, but there is going to come some
other circuits which suit us and that's the way
it's going to happen this year. It's going to
go up and down between the circuits. |
| Question :On
your final two runs, you had a moment you had to correct
in the second sector both times. How close were
you to losing it in those sectors because
it's still quite dusty out there. |
| M
Schumacher :
Yes. That's right in my fastest time that
I had that situation. I wasn't expecting
to make the corner any more because normally
it's just enough to go a little bit
off line and then lose the corner,
but for whatever reason, I kept it on line
and we were able to continue,
luckily, otherwise I would have been in third position.
|
| Question : Did
the track conditions change at all? |
| M
Schumacher : To
me they did. When I went out the first time the
car was almost OK. Then the
second time the understeer started and it
was all the way until the end so something
did change with the temperature. |
| Question : Michael,
I guess you feel that you could have gone
quicker, couldn't you? |
| M
Schumacher : Quite
honestly, I guess everyone always
has some little problems. |
| Question : Does
this result vindicate bringing the new car?
|
| M
Schumacher :
In all honesty, yes. The car
is ready and the old car for sure
is not faster than the new car, very obviously,
so I don't know where we would
have been if we'd brought the old car. |
| Question : Do
you feel you were a bit let down by Bridgestone.
Is there a problem with the tyres in comparison to Michelin?
|
| M
Schumacher :
I'm
second in qualifying. I thought
that was pretty good the option
of being not too far away
from pole position, so I don't think you can say
we have been let down.
|
| Question : What
about the track at the end, did you feel
it was a bit slower? |
| M
Schumacher :
No,
I didn't have that feeling. Obviously
I was improving my time again, but
on the other hand I hadn't been out at
the very last minute so I don't know
whether there was another change within
five minutes to the end to when I
was running.
|
| Question : Was
it always calculated that you would
do three runs rather than four? |
| M
Schumacher :
We
take the circumstances. I
would have wanted to do... We were thinking
of doing maybe another run at the end but then we just
ran out of time.
|
| Question : At
one point we saw you altering something behind
the steering wheel. What was that,
is it something you always do? |
| M
Schumacher :
There's
a brake balance that you can adjust. It depends on when
I need it.
|
| Question : For
Michael and Montoya. Last
Grand Prix you started from
the front. What is your
feeling to find yourselves alongside each other again?
|
| M
Schumacher :
I don't think we have a problem
with that, do we? |
| JP Montoya :
No |
| Question : Do
you find it particularly difficult
setting up on the new car? |
| M
Schumacher :
No,
not necessarily. It is new, so we
have to go down different roads but it is
not any particular problem. We maybe could say we have
not got the maximum potential from it yet because
maybe there are things we don't know yet
where on the other car we would know, but
I know we can improve for now on.
|
| Question : You
were one tenth slower than
the Williams car here. Is this the difference
between the new Ferrari and the new Williams in race
conditions? |
| M
Schumacher :
I don't think it is really fair
to say this. If you pass on maybe three
or four races you can make a judgement on what
is the car performance despite
the tyre performance. Last year we struggled here a
little bit without tyres and it looks like we have some
difficulties this year and that would obviously minimise,
or, it doesn't show the potential of the car. |
| Question : Michael.
Would it be fair to
say the car behaved better in testing
at Mugello and Barcelona
than here in Sao Paulo? |
| M
Schumacher :
No.
We have seen, I don't know why, on
this particular circuit, that if you
have a particular advantage in the car it doesn't
show too much in Brazil. And if you go back to the past,
and you see it again now, if you take
last year's car with Rubens and see
the lap time he has done in
comparison to what I have been doing
and if you take that and look at what
we were able to do in
Malaysia and in Melbourne then some circuits give
you more of a car advantage than others. So here
the cars don't show really as
big a difference although we still see a difference.
I am fairly confident in what we have in the car and
in some other circuits I am sure it will show up even
more.
|
| Question : Michael.
Looking at last year the
two pit stop strategy showed
is was the wrong decision. Considering
the tyre information you have learned here in
the last sessions, are you able to make just one pit
stop? |
| M
Schumacher :
Obviously
I will not go into detail about what pit stop we
will do but to answer your question whether it was right
or wrong you don't know the
difference between the two tyre manufacturers
and to judge whether a strategy is right or wrong
it is probably not just
right to say it like that.
You have to consider more factors.
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