Q: Kimi, it didn’t seem to be too long ago that you were midfield with the MP4-19, now we have the 19B. The car is obviously a quantum leap forward.
Kimi Raikkonen: Yeah, definitely. Since we ran it the first time here in testing it was straight away better and hopefully we start to get results now. I think in the last race we had the potential. This weekend has been very good. The car is good to drive and hopefully we can score a good result.

Q: Well, you were quickest yesterday afternoon, quickest in the two sessions this morning, it’s looking very, very good for you.
KR: Yeah, the balance has been good all the way through the weekend and what can I say? I am very happy for me and for the team because we had a very difficult start to the season so it’s good to finally get some results and it is just the first few races now with the new car and I’m sure we can improve and made it even quicker, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.

Q: As it happened, it didn’t rain in qualifying. Do you think where you went out for qualifying hurt you? Do you think you could have gone even quicker if you had gone out at the end?
KR: I don’t think so. It didn’t make any difference.

Q: Rubens, another good performance at Silverstone. You are very good here - you’ve out-qualified Michael (Schumacher) four out of the five times you have been driving for Ferrari at Silverstone. How has your weekend been so far?
Rubens Barrichello: It has been quite good. The car has been working fantastically well. We were on a very good lap in qualifying. I think sector one was magic, I really enjoyed that. Then the car maybe started to slide a little bit more towards the end of the lap and I lost time into sector three. A little bit more would have been enough, but even so it was a good lap.

Q: Sliding towards the end of the lap, does that have any meaning for the race tomorrow in terms of how the handling is going to go?
RB: In terms of race pace we were quite good this morning and it was on the new tyres we had to make a compromise but on the used set it seems that the car is just getting better so that is quite promising for tomorrow.

Q: Jenson, a dramatic build-up to your qualifying run. First of us all talk us through those last few minutes while you were putting on your helmet, the storm clouds were building up, twenty minutes to go, five cars to run in that last batch.
Jenson Button: Yeah, it was a bit of a close one to call really but I think strategy-wise we did very well with the weather and it is good to be in the top three here. Obviously we wanted to be on pole, but it’s a good position to start the race tomorrow and I am looking forward to it.

Q: The team seemed to be saying yesterday they weren’t incredibly happy with the handling of the car at that point. Where are you at now with the chassis and how do you think things are going to go tomorrow?
JB: Well the balance is a lot better than yesterday. We are still not exactly where we would like to be but it has improved over the last two test sessions today so that puts us in good shape for tomorrow.

Q: Talk us through that qualifying lap - how did it go from your point of view?
JB: It was okay. It is very windy; it is the same for all of us and in Becketts I had a very good run through and the car was very good. But when I got to some other high-speed parts of the circuit I found the car was very different there. I could only put it down to the wind really. But it wasn’t a bad lap so I am reasonably happy with it. There wasn’t much more left in the car.

Q: Kimi, how do you see the race going tomorrow, particularly if the weather is changeable?
KR: A few years ago we had a very difficult race here, it was raining and then clearing up and there were all sorts of different conditions. It will make it more difficult for everyone. I’m not sure where we are standing against the Bridgestone runners right now because I don’t remember when I used them last time. I think they are definitely stronger or better than last year but it also depends on how much it rains. We need to see how it goes tomorrow. We should have a strong car in the race and we are expecting to have a good result.

PRESS CONFERENCE

Q: Kimi, it has been a tough year so far but you are finally back on pole again. What does this mean to you?
KR: Of course, it is nice to be in first place, especially after the start of the season being so difficult and not really finishing the races and scoring points, so it is very good for me and the team and we are very happy.

Q: Can you win tomorrow?
KR: We try. That is why we are here. I think the car, definitely, is much stronger in the race than the old one and we were quick in the last race.

Q: Have you managed to compare it to Ferrari, to BAR and to Renault?
KR: No, not really, only what we have seen in the last race and, okay, in the practice here but it is always different in the race. So we need to wait and see what happens.