From Autosport.com(Full transcript can be read here)
Q. Kimi, what does it mean for you to be leading the championship
at this time of the year, coming here for the start of the European
season?
Kimi Raikkonen: Of course it’s nice but the season is only a
few races old. It is a long way to go and it doesn’t help if you are
leading now and you can’t keep it up and lead when it really matters.
But so far it has been pretty okay. It could have been better at the
start of the season but we are leading in the points, so I need to be
happy.
Q. You won here in 2005 but it hasn’t been a fantastic circuit for you this one, has it?
KR: No, last year we didn’t finish. I think we only did nine
laps in the race. I can’t remember all the things that have happened
here but usually they are not very good results. It can turn around.
Hopefully this year we can be strong and finish the race at least. We
will see how it goes tomorrow.
Q. How do you feel about the modifications made to your car since Bahrain?
KR: I don’t really have a clear picture about it. I did four
or five laps in the dry and it was a bit damp. The team is happy how we
improved the car and we brought some new parts and they seem to work.
It should be better. I tried the new front on a few laps on
intermediates, so we will see how it goes over the weekend, how the car
goes. It should be better than it was in previous races.
Q. So tomorrow will be a real discovery for you in comparison?
KR: I have been here before in dry conditions and every time
you improve the car it should make it better. We have some work to do
but I think for sure we can be fast here.
Q. (Dan Knutson – National Speed Sport News) Kimi, how do you see
the hierarchy between Ferrari, McLaren and BMW? Is the fight between
the two of you or is BMW also a threat now?
KR: I mean they were second best in the last race, so for
sure they are there. I think it all depends from race to race. If you
look at the last couple of races they are very similar and we are a
little bit ahead of them. I don’t know how it is going to be here. We
need to wait and see really but it is going to be close between all the
three teams.
Q. (Jerome Bourret – L’Equipe) To Kimi and Fernando, can you
imagine, during your career, racing two hundred and sixty GPs or will
you be fed up with the PR etc before that point?
KR: What, whether I will do two hundred and sixty something races? I don’t even know how many I have now but probably not.
FA: I don’t know, I don’t know. I don’t think so
either. I don’t know how many I have at the moment either, but 260
seems too many years.
Q. (Dan Knutson – National Speed Sport News) After the test here
there was a lot of discussion about the coming ban of tyre warming
blankets. A lot of series don’t have tyre-warming blankets and have pit
stops. Is that going to be a problem for F1, to have this ban?
KR: I haven’t run the tyres at all, so I don’t really
have any idea how it will be but I heard that, as Rubens and everybody
else said, it’s going to be very difficult, so I’m not really in the
right place to say. But if it’s purely for saving money, it’s the wrong
place to save money. It’s not much and they are going to spend the same
money somewhere else anyhow, so…
Q. (Carlos Miquel – Diario AS) Kimi, do you agree with
Montezemolo when he says it might not be good for Ferrari to have
Fernando Alonso as your teammate?
KR: (Laughs) It’s better that I don’t say anything.
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