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Question :
Michael.
Have you had a look?
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| M.Schumacher
:
Not
a proper one. I had a
look from the helicopter, and that is not valid
because you don't see the drop of the circuit
and so on. I am going to go and look later.
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| Question :
Michael.
Do you have a new engine here?
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| M.Schumacher
: No,
not that I know
of. We develop consistently
but we don't have the
new one yet. |
| Question :
This
is your home race. Do you still get a buzz
about it, what's special?
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| M.Schumacher
: It
hasn't changed at all. It's always
the same procedure. You feel sort of
comfortable to be here, you come a
little bit earlier to the country to see
friends and the whole environment
is familiar. Obviously with the circuit change
it's another new challenge to learn. I'm quite
happy from the point of view
that the circuit owners have changed the
circuit to make it more interesting
for us drivers, to have
more overtaking opportunities,
even to increase spectator
facilities. So all in all
I'm looking forward to coming
here and doing well in front of our fans. |
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Question :
Now, in the football, are
you going to support your team-mate or your technical
director in the first match, and are you
going to come in early
to watch the second match?
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| M.Schumacher
:
We
have bi - directional telemetry, so I'm
sort of aware all the time what the scores are. As
for which team I will support,
I think I will stay in the middle
and watch the two teams and see what they do.
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| Question :
Michael
there was a period in Montreal where
you had to push very, very hard, and
then later on Montoya appeared to be closing
in on you. He was saying afterwards that he thought
you had blistered tyres. How close do you
think it would have been had he not blown up?
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| M.Schumacher
: He
was actually right, I had blistered tyres but I
had them in the first
stint as well. It isn't the best thing to
have for performance, but still
they performed good enough to win and I
think it's one thing to get
close, it's another thing to overtake.
You see how difficult it was for Ralf to
overtake and I think it would have
been same because, at the time, when
Montoya had done his pit stop, came out and did very
good lap times, I was stuck in traffic. The
next lap, on the lap that
he blew up, I did exactly the
same lap time as he did, so
if you just watched that, it probably shows that
we would have been competitive enough to stay where
we were. It was a race, yes, but I don't think
it would have been very easy
to overtake, because we had very good straightline
speed and I wouldn't have seen any opportunity
really, unless you make a mistake
or something wrong happens. But in normal circumstances
I think we were racing tightly. |
| Question :
Again,
a question about football to Michael and Ralf. Michael,
are you a little bit disappointed that you will miss
the first part of the
game tomorrow and to Ralf, are you now a
little bit interested in football and the Germans
tomorrow, because you haven't been before?
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| M.Schumacher
: Honestly,
I would like to see the match but then we
have reasons not to do the first part of it, but
I'm going to watch the rest. I think it's the end which
is the most important part to watch. I will keep my
fingers crossed while I'm driving. |
| R.Schumacher
: And
I will wait until the final, until Germany is in the
final. Then I can watch. |
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Question :
Michael,
what is going to be the result tomorrow, what do you
think?
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| M.Schumacher
:
I
think, honestly, from my point of view at least,
if you look at this championship
this year, there have been so
many surprises already. Anyone who
sort of feels he's able to predict
what's going to happen could be completely wrong,
so I see no point in putting a target out
because I don't think it's realistic.
I just cross my fingers and hope they
do well.
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| Question :
Michael,
don't you get SMS on your
steering wheel?
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| M.Schumacher
: Yes,
that's what I said before. I shall
be informed. |
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