| Question :
Michael
was your qualifying strategy knocked off pace by that
red flag? |
| M.Schumacher
:
Not
necessarily. You basically have the top three who did
their time after the red flag. I don't think the
knowledge of maybe half a
run, which Rubens had done before
the red flag, really helped big time. It was a
straight and fair session that didn't really work for
us.
|
| Question :
What
happened on your second timed lap
on the first run?
|
| M.Schumacher
: I
just lost the back end.
I think we have a little problem,
I don't know what is the problem,
that's why I jumped into the
T-car, and we need to check now. Anyway,
we are in third
position. With all that has been going
on, that's quite reasonable and the race is going
to be long tomorrow.
|
| Question :
Michael.
What happened between
this morning and this afternoon?
|
| M.Schumacher
: Obviously
I don't know yet, but
I am certainly going to
investigate. It is probably a bit unusual
that I go faster this morning than I can
do in the afternoon, so we will, I guess, find a reason
for this.
|
| Question :
What
was the car doing that you didn't like this afternoon?
|
| M.Schumacher
: It
was just not performing, just
not fast enough. I don't know yet, there wasn't
anything specifically wrong it was
just not there, at least not in one part
of the circuit. But then you honestly
have to say that Rubens did a very good
job on the other side, so that moves it quite far apart.
|
| Question :
Was
the T-car better?
|
| M.Schumacher
: I
did a faster lap time with it, but when you have
not run a car for the whole weekend
and you just step in it is never perfectly
right, and so it was here. But that is the
way it is and now we have to look
at what we do for tomorrow. |
| Question :
Rubens was
doing his quick times on the second lap,
were you looking for the same sort of thing?
|
| M.Schumacher
:
I was trying as well. I obviously knew what
he was doing but then, like in the
last lap I got into traffic, and I couldn't,
and there was a couple of other things as
well. In the second run I got into traffic as
well, so I didn't really have the opportunity to do
it.
|
| Question :
So
how do you feel about the race tomorrow?
|
| M.Schumacher
: Reasonable,
honestly, because we have done very good work.
We are fast in general.
We know the situation is going to
be tighter here than it was in Barcelona, still I
believe we have a bit of an edge, as we have seen
in qualifying. It is small but
hopefully we can use it for our advantage.
|
| Question :
Michael,
did you change
the car because you were unhappy with
the set - up or because there
was a mechanical problem?
|
| M.Schumacher
: We
couldn't get the time
in the car. We tried twice, the first
one we thought something just didn't work, I
wasn't sure myself, I had a mistake in turn two, so
I just tried it again and we jumped in the
T-car. But as I said before there wasn't an obvious
particular problem. |
| Question :
Michael,
how much traffic was there
on your quickest run?
|
| M.Schumacher
: It
was McNish, I think, in front of me, but I don't really
know if that cost me significant time. |
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