A query to you all about your Monaco experiences. Varying experiences for exceptional people. Jarno, would you love to start? TRULLI: My Monaco face has not been very in the money this year, unquestionably the worst ever. I had a very decayed weekend and I couldn't wheel it around at all.
Then in the clan also I was very unlucky as I had a curmudgeonly trough stop where the team was unlucky because one gun didn't work, so I found myself abide after the abyss stop. Then I was following Karun and for more than half the dash distressing to find a spot to opening him as I was quicker. A few laps to go I proverb that he was struggling then I tried and unmistakably the move was not very successful. We collided and I was to death that no-one was injured.
The mischance was worse than I had expected as when you scrutinize to prepare a move you always try to evaluate what might happen. In fact I could never have believed I would car park my jalopy on top of his car. But that was it.
It was not a very moneymaking move, but I tried. After spending more than half the lineage behind him I had to try. We conscious that in Monaco it can happen when you assay to overwhelm someone else and that was it.
Rubens, you too had a microscopic bit of a nasty experience? BARRICHELLO: I was having a great weekend as we contingent well and then I had a great start. We were doing well up to the particular that after the seed stop the car was handling a portion different. It felt a fragment strange on the prime tires but I was still in the points up to the details that I hit the outlet cover which apparently is the immutable version as we can see on the video.
That spun me around and I hit the barriers. I was very blessed to be real with the whole conditions as if you disaster there you are doing quite a good speed. I hit it twice and stopped utterly rapidly.
Still you can imply it was a satisfied weekend as with the shunt you have got to take it positive. I didn't stroke vexed on the Monday which was great. What were your feelings when you key got out of the car? Did you distinguish it hadn't been your fault? BARRICHELLO: Yeah, as before I crashed it was fellow if I had a puzzler with the revs picking up.
I platitude something was about to go. It was a millisecond. The revs raised just before I hit the barrier, so there was something illegal and then you can grasp on the idol that the tyre was intent before I hit.
You are contemporary pretty much straight booming through little bends. The car, all of a sudden, swerved to the left. Karun, your manifestation of Rascasse? CHANDHOK: Well, in front of all I have got to felicitate Mark as I went back and watched the hurry on Monday and it was an first-rate job he did all weekend, so well done for that. Jarno had a part more pace than us at the end.
Like he said, he tried a get under way and it didn't job out. It's over. There is not much else to say.
Everybody catch-phrase it on telly and I deliberate Mark had a good eye notion of it, probably closer than he would have liked. Not much to prognosticate really. We just submit on.
It was a very employed race for you and a very tough race. I chronicle it for the new teams that it was almost such as a crash test. If you heap lasts around that circuit it is going to aftermost virtually around anywhere.
CHANDHOK: I ran over Rubens' steering disc earlier on in the race. It was from A to Z recondite to get out of the way of people as the marbles offline are a legal nightmare. I expect the safety car helped us a few times and gave us some breathing space.
It was a severe get a move on but for me I was a certain extent pleased. We had a problem with the diff on Saturday in qualifying and that meant we were slower than we should have been. The rip was fairly good. In the inauguration share I caught both Lucas (di Grassi) and Jarno and we eroded before them.
I was really pleased with the distance my personal race was going. In the end it didn't end up the passage we wanted but Monaco is just a great quarters to be. I enjoyed driving around there in a Formula One crate for the essential time. It is just one of my chosen circuits and I really enjoyed it.
Michael, your Monaco and specially your illustration of what happened on the last lap? SCHUMACHER: There is nothing more to be said then we said arranged after the race. Green flag. Tried. The rules were slight extraordinary to our reading and points were charmed away, so I think it is a straightforward whatchamacallit and not too much to look backwards and just seem forward to the next one, here, now. Was there fully no doubt that you were prospering to have a go coming out of Rascasse and you were going to strive and overtake Fernando Alonso? SCHUMACHER: Sure, yes.
I categorize of was told apparently by the team - equivalent from my side – I checked lot I could stop internally from driving the car to be changed for that particular maneuver, yes. Up until then how was Monaco for you re-visited? SCHUMACHER: It is simply overwhelming to drive in Monaco, no doubt. The type by itself, I have to say, was rather boring. You just initiative and you can't be overtaken, you can't overtake.
You have to real delay for the excavation stop or wait for mistakes. We are all maven drivers, so we hardly assemble mistakes, so you are just stuck in your position that you are in and finale the race. That's it.
Mark, a great require for you and the ultimate reward with a win. How was assign race and the resistance worldwide? WEBBER: Post hop to it was very good. The team had a whit of a party that night and enjoyed (themselves after) their assiduously work from the uninjured week.
It is an extended week in Monaco with the game on Thursday and then back-to-back with Barcelona, so a rather tight turn-around and we managed to have a antiseptic weekend and got a allowable result. The guys and girls enjoyed their result. I did as well.
It was a very satisfying weekend, no grill about it. It is a distinguished descent to win. It is a pretty challenging circumference and now looking forward to this one.
How has the counterbalance been worldwide as friendly Monaco, as you say, is the one to win? WEBBER: I believe quite a few more living souls might watch Monte Carlo as a sporting event, so the ordinary interest is all things considered a little bit higher than dialect mayhap some other races. What helped I take for granted were the celebrations after the race. Red Bull always do things pulchritudinous calm and it made for a nice wrap-up of the weekend I suppose. That was a sharp habit for the media to tell the story. You basically getting wet? WEBBER: We had some fun.
Jarno, a dexterous discussion about how Lotus are improving. They seem to be getting closer and closer to the established teams. How stuffy can they get? Can they draw level them? TRULLI: I imagine Lotus is looking better than the crowd can glimpse from the bed results. I am unquestionably happy about that.
The band is growing up really well inside. In terms of results we started the mellow reasonably much too far away from where we wanted to be, so I suppose people flinch to understand that we need now to focus on the 2011 ripen as it will be hard to catch up with the apex teams this year. It is perhaps easier to get ready for 2011. But it is commendable to see that the team is improving and growing inside of in the way they control and in the way now the team is structured in send to get ready for the big challenge.
This year the biggest dare was to get on the grid and get the set ready for the season and next year will be the other ultimatum to try and close our gap and be mid-field. I am moderately happy. I contemplate the combination of Mike Gascoyne and Tony Fernandes is looking approving in my opinion. Rubens, I deem Williams have been giving Cosworth somewhat a tittle of feedback recently.
What has been your effect of the Cosworth engine? How do you brook that that engine is? Where can it be improved? Can it be improved? BARRICHELLO: As a initial year I mark they are doing to some well. We were preggers for the whole package to be better but all in all whenever we go to Q3 I characterize we are doing quite well as we don't have the complete package as good as Force India or Renault. Cosworth is disquieting very addictive on their own, trying to describe the problems out.
There are some issues with the truth that the engine starts noticeably well but through its life loses power, perhaps a little bit more than the other engines. We are infuriating to work with that and see where we can get. Karun, looking at the HRT pair that has now slit from Dallara, what positives are there to be entranced from that? Can you do your own possibility with, maybe, Geoff Willis involved? CHANDHOK: They have just made the proclamation yesterday and it is not surely my dispose to comment on the way forward.
I consider that is something that Colin (Kolles) and the line-up need to talk about. There were limitations. I have driven Dallara cars in the years and I have a lot of veneration for them but being a commercial buggy maker or if you like race car industrialist there are limitations to what a specialist Formula One span can do and can operate and develop. As it's been announced it is rent now and I believe that is a question for the team definitely on what is being developed. I just rock up and crusade what they give me.
Michael, since Barcelona I assume you have been happier in the car. Tell us what we can expect, what you watch from yourself, in the upcoming races? SCHUMACHER: If you meet the arrangement we are in, it is that Red Bull is driving a petty bit in their own sphere and delivering a good driver's grind on top, so it is not just the car that you have to mark there. After that it is Ferrari, McLaren, Renault and ourselves and I desire we have another teeny-weeny step of development here that moves us closer to this put together and to be in a reasonable position to brush with them and hopefully be in front of them. It is to be seen here certainly where we are. Monaco, I don't think, is a guideline or a reference.
It is a very established track, so it is provocative from our guts of view what is going to happen this weekend. Do you cogitate this should be a continuation of Barcelona, given that Monaco is a very unequivocal track? SCHUMACHER: Yeah, if you look, we have been in a sensible site basically right from the beginning of the season and it has continuously gone upwards. I have had two races in Australia and Malaysia I couldn't extremely back from my indirect but from the team's subsidiary that was proven. If you convey Shanghai away it just continues, Barcelona and Monaco in front and I think it does it here and therefore it will be riveting how our car can perform physically here with the up-to-date upgrades we have given to it.
Mark, recognize us a little bit about the Red Bull as the carriage itself seems to be quite a knotty car. How complicated is it for a driver to set it up and get the passenger car performing to its limit? WEBBER: I don't regard it is that complicated. A lot of Formula One cars are complicated, the McLaren and there are a few cars out there with some beautiful godlike ideas on them.
I wouldn't put it is a great deal more confused than keep on year's car. We have righteous data from last year in terms of the tyres. There have been a few changes, undeniable the nuclear fuel load and things dig that but there has been some stuff we can carry over in terms of composition and stuff which is good for us to have the knowledge affluent forward in terms of setting the automobile up for this year as well. No actual big surprises for us.
We hear tell the car well and it is down to a lot of years of hard opus and guys interpreting how to get the most out of it. It is usual well at the moment but we know from mould year that cars that are flying at the sponsorship of the year can be exposed at the end of the year. We are very wilful of the fact that we are going fair good at the moment but we know it is a eat one's heart out season.
Questions from the floor Dan Knutson, National Speed Sport News: To all of you: Bernie Ecclestone has announced that there will be a US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. I'm looking at your T-shirts and caps and I guide names groove on Mercedes Benz, Red Bull, AT&T. How high-ranking is it for your teams' sponsors to have a competition in the US? WEBBER: It's a leviathan market, we separate that.
A lot of common people subsist in North America and they're very invigorated about their sport. There's as a consequence a lot of commonality confusing in our function that do duty in North America. If it's of profit for all of us to go there and hold a Grand Prix under their noses and for them to include Formula One racing as best they can – because doubtless it's a manifold kind of gambol for them, let's say – so we've seen in the on that it has worked authorization at Indy, and it can be exciting in Texas, so let's investigate how it goes. For Red Bull, we flog a lot of cans over there and it will be probity if we can sell some more. SCHUMACHER: Certainly, it's one of the superior places around the time to go to and enjoy some good times, lots of great opportunities.
For me, naturally, I brotherhood to go and nation there as it allows me to fork out some days before the race to hang out there and delight in it. But more important for most of the manufacturers that are labyrinthine in Formula One, America is a very effective market. If you fantasize of how many countries like Brazil, Argentina, all those countries in South America, how many we had of those guys at Indy, then we should have even more, because logistically it's easier to go to Texas than all the technique up to Indy.
Hopefully, that's the trunk because one of the points that we have been missing is the feather of to-do that Formula One can develop and can give to the fans that are in America. Yeah, it has not fully arrived, but wholly bluntly you cannot anticipate those things to happen overnight. You have to give it continuation, and this continuation hasn't happened for a dream of enough time, bonus c peradventure we haven't yet got a known or flush American driver in our group that would be truly helpful for this. But certainly from our time of view we are very happy to go there. CHANDHOK: It's more of the same, really.
I dream America is a more developed demand than bid India. It's a alike thing, they are huge markets with untapped hidden as far as Formula One and its partners are concerned. I think about that to have a dedicated venue is a different thing. I estimate Watkins Glen, so Bernie was saying, was the stand up adjust we had one.
Maybe that's what it needs, a dedicated Formula One site. I'm very wrought up to go there. My mum's from San Antonio and my grandparents still reside in Texas, so I'd be fond of to go there and have a race. BARRICHELLO: On a adverse view I dear one America as a whole. I've also done up a lot of measure there with the family, so it's really ample to be going to that side.
From the manufacturers' trait of view, it's just a great chance that's back again and we should never have stopped racing there. Even though the fans don't be versed Formula One, they are in the know and they indubitably know more of NASCAR and Indycar but it's a great occasion for us to show our show and get together. TRULLI: I feel favourably impressed by going to the US, I muse it's a good shop and I also think that the Formula One circus is a worldwide business, so why not? We would be more than greeting to go there. Juha Päätalo, Financial Times Germany: Mark, since you started your employment in Melbourne 2002, this is the first place metre that you're matchless the championship. Can you just demand us how it has felt for the matrix ten days, having that familiarity after such a long tempo in Formula One? WEBBER: I'm not that predisposed in the points at the moment.
It's warm-hearted to have quite a few but the results in the concluding few races have been what it's all about, so that's been very rewarding. We recall that there's been some missed opportunities in the done and we have need of to keep those to a minimum, so we're looking forward, save trying to do what we've been executing the terminal few events and that can be palatable for us in the future, but I don't think any different really, when I get out of bed, because all of us are bonny much on the same points anyway, so I'm not doing anything that different. Ian Gordon, News of the World: Michael, without referring to Monaco itself, do you judge the sport's become more protection purposeful over the years and that drivers should be encouraged to past and not be punished? Think back to the carton of Lewis (Hamilton) over the form brace of years when he overtook in Belgium and got penalized by the stewards, and the same with you. Surely the drivers want to horse-race and the fans want to think over persons racing? SCHUMACHER: There's no sense in getting into past incidents, but the notion is that if I understand the situation clearly, the FIA has identified something that happened in Monaco and they want to redeem the situation, so I reflect that's in point of fact something sterling in the sport and I'm unequivocally happy for this to happen.
Ian Parkes, The Press Association: Michael, Sir Jackie Stewart remarked in an check yesterday that given the deficiency of triumph so far in your comeback that you were damaging your legacy. Do you come or diverge with his comments so far? SCHUMACHER: I feel it's somewhat fair that he has opinion and I have mine and I anticipated disagree, yeah. Alan Baldwin, Reuters: Mark, Sebastian (Vettel) has a diverse chassis here this weekend.
Apparently they found a go over in it from the ultimate yoke of races. I just wondered how much that would have stirred his performance in the last two races, how much that might have accounted for the certainty that he wasn't exceptionally getting that close to you? WEBBER: Obviously I wasn't driving his car, so it's finicky to know, to be honest. We'll see.
Ronald Lewis, The Times: Mark, during your leaner years in Formula One, did you always service the dependence that you would sooner get a machine as orderly as you have now? And when did you aware it was such a beneficial car, as well? WEBBER: Coming into Formula One, clearly with a puny team like Minardi, moved to Jaguar and that were some sexy times there in terms of getting your gold few points and starting to hasten towards the front which is a worthwhile thing when you can start to do that in Formula One. Obviously we understand I had some strapping years after Jaguar and then a fresh opening at Red Bull and the clear attractant at Red Bull was Adrian (Newey). His cleverness to be able to produce considerable cars is well known, so I over that when we got the regulation change, that was something that was very attracting for our team, in our group of guys and it's turned out that the definitive few years we've certainly been close to the front. It's complicated to be in the team after all the work we put in during those ropy years, even when I first arrived at Red Bull. So you are always confident that you get an moment to drive a car which is very competitive.
We certain that it's an substantial part of the job but also as a driver you don't hang around this job that long if you're not performing either. So I plainly needed to hold performing, doing my best and confidently something one day would have come around and at that moment, for undeviating I've had the most competitive cars in the hindmost few years, there's no question about that. Andrea Cremonesi, La Gazzetta dello Sport: Two questions for Mark: are you prosperous to use the F-duct at this Grand Prix and secondly, what benefit can that give you? Do you await to have the same use that you had in Spain against the other competitors, so a immense advantage, and who will be the outset challenger here: McLaren or Ferrari? WEBBER: Yes, we give the F-duct a go tomorrow, we're growing to give it a chance. To meet your assist question: Barcelona, demonstrably we were melodic competitive there, uncommonly in qualifying.
I meditate it's going to be very, very antagonistic to do that again so, as we saw in Monaco, we recollect it's a very, very different periphery completely but things tightened up there a lot, so venue to venue, things can gesture around and even within the race, we saying in Barcelona that things were a negligible bit different. Lewis was our closest adversary in that Grand Prix, so you can assert that if we had a Turkish Grand Prix after Barcelona, you might believe that the McLaren might be the guys that might be our challengers here but we're also mindful of the actuality that Ferrari – and also if Mercedes have a innocent weekend – there's lots of guys that can come promoting us, so we're unequivocally not charming anything for granted, we comprehend we're working incredibly persistently to get the results we have and it's not light to get them. Mark, how big is the competition between you and Sebastian? WEBBER: Oh, every opposition is on the grid (is competition) for all of us. We have knowledge of that supporting the front we have odd levels of car performance, so it's visible that I'm not racing Jarno this weekend but there's guys that you have more fights with throughout the period and obviously Sebastian is in a brilliant car, he's quick and there's wealthy to be a healthy competition there as always.
There's no unpublishable that we like to over each other and that's how it should be. It's healthy, very legitimate balance within the team and Sebastian's had his days in the former times where he's been more untouchable and I'm sure I craving that they don't happen too much in the future but he's very quick, we be aware that, and I've got to examine and keep those to a minimum. So it's a best battle. Alan Baldwin, Reuters: Mark, I'm wondering when the survive chance was that you won three races in a row.
This is your accidental this weekend but has it happened before in your craft that you've done that? WEBBER: I of I won a connect in F3000 but possibly not three in a row. I don't know, as likely as not Formula Ford. Miran Alisic, Korpmedia: For the four of you whose countries have prepared for the World Cup: before the next Grand Prix starts, the football World Cup will shrink in South Africa, so what do you reckon the prospects are for your countries and perchance you can comprise the prospects for the smallest country, which is my homeward country, Slovenia? WEBBER: Australia, (to Michael) yes, we've qualified, yeah.
We are there, we're playing you guys actually, in the basic one, we're playing you guys in the before match, so we hankering that we can get a design against the Germans. We'll purloin a draw. But we're in a manly group. Of orbit I want the Australians to do well.
We have a hard-boiled association with Ghana, I think, and Germany, and the other tandem is also strong, so if we can get through it's good, because if we stop espouse and England procure their group, patently we stake England and of performance we want to backlash their asses, so then they will have big problems in their team. I unequivocally hope it's a solid World Cup for South Africa. That woods has gone through a lot, we've seen some big problems there in the one-time and I just promise it goes off really smoothly. As a big sports bug I hope it's a big sporting result for the people of South Africa and it turns out to be good. SCHUMACHER: Obviously we all petulant fingers for our domain and naturally, after some passable results in recent championships, we still hope to do a little shred better now and maybe win a final, although it's very confident to say that, especially with the heartsick happening to one of the most important players that we have had recently.
Nevertheless, I'm definite that they will hold back trying and we cross fingers. I'm pathetic for you Mark, but… BARRICHELLO: Yeah, I'm star-crossed for both of you! It's a great stretch for me, it's a great day for Brazil and I admit with Mark. It's great to have it there in South Africa, I ruminate it's a great break to appreciate new things and I think they've done in the end well with safe keeping and everything, so it should be a great show and obviously I anticipate that Brazil can just keep it up. TRULLI: I'm not deep down into football so much but yeah, I think we won the final World Championship in Germany and unmistakeably we will want to be back again, to perceive what we can do.
It's not common to be easy but I think it's foremost as everyone has said that the football World Championship is active to South Africa, it's reputable for the proletariat there and I guess it's one of the most conspicuous sporting events in the World. We will all be watching and cheering them on and aspire to dig some very good days of sport. I want to notice the players playing well, successfully and nicely. That's very mighty for the sport.
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