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Question :
Michael,
a very interesting qualifying
session for you. I think you were trying to
find the correct balance on the
tyres for qualifying.
In the end I think you
got your fastest time on the fifth actual lap of that
run. Talk us through that last run out there.
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| M.Schumacher
: You
are right, it seemed like we couldn't
make it on the first lap time so we had
to deal with the way out tyres were in a different
way, with a different strategy to our
competitors which for
us I wouldn't say was
a downside honestly. It is just we were not
fast enough in qualifying condition. We
hope, naturally, that we can be fast enough tomorrow.
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| Question :
How
different is this tyre than the one which
was brought to test last week?
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| M.Schumacher
: Good
question. I don't mix it myself,
so I don't know.
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Question :
Michael,
interesting that you mentioned just now that
you needed those many laps to warm up the tyres. Is
that a bit of a surprise after the test because
you had good tyres in the test then they brought new
tyres for the race.
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| M.Schumacher
: If
the tyres would have been that
good we would have kept them. So we thought we
had to improve something and we chose the
improved version so for us that is the better
solution. |
| Question :
For
the race?
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| M.Schumacher
: For
the whole weekend I
would say, honestly. It didn't suffer anything
in qualifying. The other tyres we
had we could have done exactly the same. |
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Question :
You
were expecting Williams to be good here, so front
row, you must be relatively pleased with it.
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| M.Schumacher
: Yeah,
it's alright.
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| Question :
You
were always very quick in the first sector it was the
next two where you lost out. What is the
conclusion you draw from that?
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| M.Schumacher
: He
went faster...What you probably noticed was that our
straight - line speed seemed to
be a little bit higher which is maybe
good for the first sector and the other sectors is maybe
a bit better the other way round.
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Question :
Any
problems with the red flag lap. Did that upset you?
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| M.Schumacher
: For
me, no, I was finished. |
| Question :
Michael,
two times you tried to repeat a fast lap and the first
and second stints were quite good but you came into
the pits.
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| M.Schumacher
: We
have lap times in our computers
in our car and we know what is the situation
overall. You obviously see the time
before the Ascari corner and
I see the time after the Ascari corner and if this is
down for me there is no point to continue. |
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Question :
Yeah,
because before the Ascari corner
it was about 76 thousandths.
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| M.Schumacher
: I
lost a little bit more than that on the way out.
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| Question :
Juan,
a first corner or first lap question. You and Michael
have had a few tangles this season, are you going
to do anything different or how do you see
the race going this time.
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| J.P.Montoya
: We
will just wait and see we will get
to the first corner and...
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| M.Schumacher
: Work
it out |
| J.P.Montoya : Yeah, we will see who comes
out in front, or if anybody comes out in front.
I don't know, we'll see. It's not a big deal. |
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Question :
Could
I have your opinion on the
speed bumps inside the chicanes.
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| J.P.Montoya : I
don't know, you make a mistake and you have still got
to go through it. Probably you go a bit slower through
it and when you are going into it you think about it
a bit more. Before you used to go straight, but that's
it. |
| M.Schumacher
: It
is one step in the
right direction. It doesn't solve the problem
all in all in the end, but
there is only so much that can be done. |
| R.Schumacher
: Same
as Michael.
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Question :
Did
you try and get them removed altogether?
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| M.Schumacher
: No,
they are positioned in the right way.
The chicane itself is the problem, not the bumps. |
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