Q: I would like to ask you about the track but first of all can I ask you about the sights you have seen. When did you arrive in China? What did you see? What have you done? What do you think of Shanghai? What do you think of China? What do you think of the people? Juan Pablo, I hear you have been climbing a wall…
Juan Pablo Montoya: I have been in Shanghai and Beijing for a day and I went to the Great Wall and that was an awesome experience, you know, it was really nice. Here, the city is awesome, it is really nice, a lot of traffic but apart from that it's really nice.
Rubens Barrichello: I quite like the city as well. I have been here since Wednesday. It's modern, it's beautiful, we have been visiting some places. But like Juan Pablo said, it is difficult to get out of the hotel because of the traffic. They say Brazilian drivers are good because of the traffic - they should have many drivers here. They should be all in Formula One! Unbelievable!
Jacques Villeneuve: I didn't see the town. I got here Tuesday evening and I have been at the track since, getting ready. The track itself is gorgeous. Maybe it's because it's the first time I have raced this year, but it is a very, very beautiful track.
Q: Can you tell us a bit more about the track, the overtaking spots and so on?
JV: There are a few heavy breaking (areas) and there's high-speed, low-speed corners, good rhythm, even a bit of a banked corner, a little bit of everything. You never see that any more on the new tracks. This track has a layout more like the old tracks, just with the wall pushed out.
RB: I quite enjoyed it as well. The first time out it is always a bit slippery because nobody has been out, but it is a good layout, the shape of turn 13 is quite good and will provide some overtaking down to the end of the straight, there are a lot of good points as well on set-up, because there is a mix that you can do, such as Indianapolis. For example, you have a long straight but you have so many other corners that you have to go fast, so quite a good track in all respects.
JPM: I think the same really. It's a good track. As Rubens said, hopefully it picks up more grip, but the layout is really cool.
Q: Jacques, you tested at Silverstone, but tell us how your first day back in action in competition went?
JV: It feels like being back home. Good. The team is working well. They all made it very easy for me to come back and work, they made me comfortable, and it is a team with no pressure, no stress, and we can just get down to working. This morning was mainly getting used to layout, where the limit of the car is and covering the track at the same time so there was a lot to do and it seems to be going well.
Q: You are quite close to Alonso, does that please you?
JV: Yeah, it is always good to be close to your team-mate, so that's good. It took a while to get there, though, but I can use the benchmark from my team-mate and work from that.
Q: Physically, how are you feeling? Things like your neck, you can't really train for those sorts of g-forces can you?
JV: I have been training hard since March and it seems to be okay. We did 45 laps today, which is almost a race, and there is no problem.
Q: Juan, your last three races in a team that you have been with for four years. What is the atmosphere like within the team?
JPM: Ah, it's okay.
Q: Could you expand on that please?
JPM: It's okay, I mean, the relationship with the mechanics that I work with has always been pretty good and that hasn't changed.
Q: I know you are keen to get to McLaren but in a way are you sad you are leaving the people at Williams behind?
JPM: I made quite good relationships and friendships there more than anything else and those people are still around. I am going to work with other people and create new relationships so it should be okay. Of course you are going to miss some people and everything but in life you have got to move on, you know, and I am really looking forward to doing it again.
Q: You spent quite a lot of time in a simulator practicing this track, how close was it to the actual thing and did it help a lot?
JPM: I think my first lap was about 1.5 seconds faster than everyone else's, so I think it kind of did.
Q: Rubens, Monza was a fabulous race for you and you seemed to raise both yourself and the car to a new level, especially around the time of that third pit stop. It seems that other times this year you haven't reached that level. What was different in Monza and maybe can you continue that for the last three races?
RB: To be very honest I think nothing was different. The attention of everyone, not the team, but everyone, seems to change a bit on to my side because the championship was over and people were like 'okay, now it is time for Rubens to win'. I was driving the same, I didn't do anything wrong, it was magic, the fact that I had the speed to overcome the problems of being behind and putting myself onto a three stop was good enough, so, I just pushed as hard as I could, the set-up was good, but it was some other times in the year as well, so nothing was different. I am not driving better because the championship is over, that's for sure.
