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Question :
Your tenth
win of the year, your sixth win here, the 50th
consecutive race with a Ferrari
driver on the podium. It looked
like the perfect race
from the outside.
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| M.Schumacher
: It very
much did. I think we haven't really expected
anything like that. We
were optimistic. We had a very good weekend
altogether but you never know what
is going to happen in the race with the temperature
and so on with different tyres. Then
we managed a very good start where Rubens
and myself immediately went up front and that was basically
the decision for the race where we could drive our own
pace and drive it home.
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| Question :
You had a lead of
over 20 seconds and at the end it was down to two seconds.
Was that you just taking it as easy as you could or
were there problems?
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| M.Schumacher
: There were no problems.
We saw a lot of engines blowing up and it was just precaution,
that there is no reason to stress anything harder than
necessary. Obviously there were two seconds between
Rubens and myself but there was another ten seconds,
roughly, to Juan Pablo and in this case we were able
to take it a little bit more easily.
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Question :
Next race, Monza, surely
a good place to stretch these records.
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| M.Schumacher
:
I don't think we can ask
for so much honestly. We have achieved so much this
year that it would probably be a little bit arrogant
to ask for more. We just take what comes and we do our
best and honestly we would like to do our best and take
another victory as Ferrari in Monza, because that's
our home Grand Prix, but wait and see. It's a long circuit,
we have seen Williams going very well there in the past
years. It's going to be a difficult race but it should
be a race where we should be competitive as well.
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| Question :
You seem to be more dominant
than ever, does it feel that way?
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| M.Schumacher
: Compared to maybe the last
couple of races yes, we have had very good races earlier
this season, like Spain and so on. If you go to Spain
and you go to Spa, the sort of nature of circuit, high
speed corners and so on, they are very similar and that's
what our car is built for. Obviously it's great for
us. |
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Question :
You make it seem so easy,
I'm sure it isn't.
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| M.Schumacher
:
I just enjoyed myself and
I just went flat out as much as I could until I had
to drive a little bit within a certain pace for a couple
of laps to save the tyres and then I just went for it
and just had fun this afternoon.
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| Question :
Did you warn Nigel Mansell
before the start that he was probably going to have
to say good-bye to his record of nine wins in a year?
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| M.Schumacher
: Obviously we were sharing
it. We didn't talk much about it, he was just there
to wish me luck. I thought that was very nice. |
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Question :
Was the car absolutely
perfect?
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| M.Schumacher
:
Yuh, really good, really
fantastic. |
| Question :
I just wonder how you
can make it even more dominant at Monza.
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| M.Schumacher
: I don't think it's necessary
and I don't think it's going to happen because Monza
is a circuit where these guys (Williams) according to
me, are going to be very strong and I think we have
to watch out there but we will find out next week. In
two days' time I'll be there testing and then I will
know more. |
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Question :
Michael, was this race
boring for you or do you just like driving alone?
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| M.Schumacher
: It was a very nice race
for me, honestly. It is not always necessary to have
a good feeling in the car and today I had a very good
feeling because the car simply felt perfect and I just
enjoyed the driving itself.
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| Question :
So you prefer glory and
wins to sporting competition?
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| M.Schumacher
: No. I didn't say that.
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Question :
Michael, looking back to
last year, in Monza you were not at your peak. Is
that more motivation for you at the next Grand Prix?
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| M.Schumacher
:
It is, I think, the first
time it has been for me not being on the peak of performance
for various reasons and there it was an obvious reason.
But we are not going to, hopefully, have to face anything
like this, so I should be in normal shape and with normal
motivation and then we shall see what the car does allow
us. Obviously the question before was we are so dominant
so it will be an easy thing for us in Monza, but we
have seen this year that with the tyre situation sometimes
you come to a circuit where you have been dominant before
on another circuit and you are suddenly not dominant
any more and the gap is very close. I foresee that this
can happen, it doesn't need to happen but it can happen
in Monza, so we have to give it a hundred percent. We
will do and I will do and we want to do well for our
Tifosi in Monza. |
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