Q: Jarno, can we have a voice level, how is it?
Jarno Trulli: It's so-so. Not very loud…

Q: You've mentioned that this circuit is a technical one, and one that you enjoy; give us your views of it now that you've had a good look at it?
JT: As usual, it's been one of my favourite circuits. It's quite technical, a lot of different kind of corners: slow speed, high speed, medium, changes of direction, hard-braking, so it's a circuit I like very much and I believe any driver can enjoy it.

Q: But why do you enjoy technical circuits more than say Spa?
JT: Spa is very technical as well. I like it very much; it's probably my favourite one. The two, I cannot say, are dissimilar but they are close to each other. Spa is more like an older style circuit, which is fantastic. This one is more natural, a contemporary circuit with a lot of big run-off areas, but I still prefer Spa.

Q: You've mentioned that you find yourself very popular here in France; why do you think that is?
JT: I think it's because I was driving for Prost Grand Prix, a French team, and I had a lot of French supporters at that time which I eventually found again when I joined Renault a few years ago. And the fact that I speak French fluently so I can give interviews to all the French journalists made me very well known around France.

Q: So you regard this as a second Grand Prix for you?
JT: Probably the third, the first is Imola, the second is Monaco, the third will be this one, and the fourth one will be Silverstone!

Q: Now obviously people are becoming fairly aware about the speeds in Formula One at the moment. It's something that you have spoken about earlier on this year. What are your feelings regarding that?
JT: Well, to be honest, it's nothing to do with Ralf's accident but obviously the USA (events) just proved that Formula One cars are very quick and we need more safety, we need to take care of the speed and to slow them down because we all know that there is a lot of technology in this sport and every year we improve our performance - we ask the technicians to make the cars quicker. On the other hand I think the FIA has to work to slow the cars down and to give more safety to the drivers, to the spectators, to everybody, and to give more of a show to the spectators.

Q: Is it in braking, is it in G-force or is it overall?
JT: I won't go into details but there are a lot of areas where we should work and it's not up to me to decide which areas, it's more likely to be decided by the FIA and I think the FIA, together with the GPDA, we can suggest to them what we think as drivers could be the best way to slow the cars down, or to make our sport safer, but for sure, there is something to do.

Q: What about the GPDA feeling after Indianapolis; was there a feeling that perhaps something could have been done to lessen the impact, for example, of Ralf Schumacher's accident?
JT: More than impact, we weren't very happy about some actions that were taken, like the doctors, the ambulance, the fact that for seven laps we were going through the same place where a lot of debris was on the track, where Ralf crashed. There are a lot of little mistakes, which can be cured in the future and we will probably discuss it this afternoon in the drivers' briefing and afterwards with all the GPDA members.

Q: Fernando, first of all, Rob White (technical director, engine) says that the team can take the fight to Ferrari on some circuits. Do you think that's possible in the second half of the year?
Fernando Alonso: I don't know. It's probably a little bit too optimistic but why not? I think we are working OK, we are the only team who have won a race apart from Ferrari and we guess that the second half of the season will be better than the first half, considering we started with a very new engine project and we know we can develop the chassis a lot more as well. We know we have a very strong potential with the Renault car and during the last half of the season, we will probably take 100 per cent of it.

Q: And a new engine specification here, I believe?
FA: Yeah, we have something… (laughs) well, you know, every race we have something new coming with the engine and in the chassis as well and here we have something more and hopefully it will help us to be more competitive.

Q: The last couple of races haven't been very good for you, so what's your mood coming here?
FA: Well, work at the maximum as usual and wait for luck to come back to me a bit, or even just not bad luck, normal luck because in Monaco I crashed with Ralf in the tunnel, at the Nuerburgring I had a steering rack problem, in Canada I had the driveshaft problem and at Indy the tyre, so I've not been very lucky at the moment, but I'm sure it will change from now until the end.