Q: You are on pole having recorded the fastest ever lap in the history of Formula One at just over 260km/h, what a fantastic lap, particularly that last sector, too.
Rubens Barrichello: You know, I'm so happy with the whole thing because the car was really good and I was able to take every little bit out the car. Especially, I am happier with the Lesmos, the Lesmo one and Lesmo two, than with the final part of my lap and it has been really good. The whole weekend the car has been showing good potential so I'm here and I'm thrilled.

Q: Was it a perfect lap from your point of view?
RB: I think it was. I mean, perfect, we are never going to be perfect, but it was very close to the limit. Monza is all about getting it right more than getting to the limit because sometimes you just make a mistake in turn one and you give away just half a second there. But I think I have been very close to the limit in every point on the circuit, especially on those two Lesmos, like I said, and I was excited inside the car to be honest.

Q: And a good build-up this morning to be quickest then as well.
RB: Yeah, we have a good car, good tyres, a good engine, everything is really good. We just have to see what the weather is going to do tomorrow, just be calm and try to play it with our cars.

Q: Juan Pablo, nice to have you back on the front row of the grid. It's been a while.
Juan Pablo Montoya: Yeah, it's been a while actually, and the team has done a really good job. What can I say? It was good. The first qualifying I went really fast. We knew Ferrari could go a lot faster than what they did and they did, you know. I made too many mistakes but even if it had been a perfect lap I think they would have been a little bit faster. It's good to be on the front row, it's good for the team, and we need the points.

Q: You have got a lot of racing laps at Monza, very close to Ferraris, both Rubens and Michael, what are your thoughts on the race tomorrow?
JPM: Well, I don't know. It's going to be an interesting race, I think. Looking at the race pace I think it is going to be quite close. I think they might be a little bit stronger but we'll see where they are on strategy and everything. It's nice, you know. My worst qualifying here has been P2 over the last four years so I can't complain.

Q: And the car is mechanically very sound now?
JPM: Yeah, I think so. Everything went really well.

Q: Michael, your lap looked pretty good for a while there. Can you talk us through it?
Michael Schumacher: Yeah, it started off very good, the first sector was always a bit of a struggle but I got that right and then in the last corner I lost a little bit of time. Anyway, I think there is not too much to complain about to be third with that sort of situation. I am quite happy with it, didn't expect it honestly. Rubens just did a perfect lap and there was nothing I could do against that.

Q: Why do you say you didn't expect that, do you say that in reference to the pre-qualifying times?
MS: Well, because I lost quite a bit of lap time and obviously I wasn't expecting to be so far off Rubens' time that I would stay where I am so I am reasonably happy.

Q: How does this weekend feel to you? It must be a wonderful experience to come here as the new world champion - obviously you are going to be appointed at the end of the year but mathematically the world champion and to be here in front of Ferrari's home crowd.
MS: Yeah, certainly after winning both championships coming here and Rubens securing pole position and me being third, so we are pretty close to each other, having a good chance tomorrow in the race to transform this into a good result so we obviously feel very happy and hopefully we can put the dot on the I and finish it off in style and make our tifosi happy, which supported us for all the years whenever it was difficult. Now, with celebration, it would be the perfect result if we could give it to them.

Q: And you have that little tricolore, the Italian flag, on the side of your helmet.
MS: Well, it's a way of saying thank you to everybody, to our engineers, mechanics, tifosi, because I have a lot of support, I have a lot of things I got from all of them and that's my way of saying thank you.

Q: Rubens, Ferrari actually haven't won three races in a row at Monza. It could happen tomorrow of course.
RB: I am actually one of the lucky ones because I won the 2002 Grand Prix and I like Monza, I like the support from the crowd, I think it's something that in the past seemed to bother me, now it just gives me power and I feel good. So I am thankful to them and to our engineers, to the whole Ferrari group. We are here and just planning a victory tomorrow. If it happens depends pretty much on what we do tomorrow but we are quite confident.

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