Q: Fernando, you secured three wins in a row for Renault and 100 wins for the Renault engine in Formula One. A fantastic day for you, a hot, long race, but you made it look very simple.
Fernando Alonso: It was hotter than Malaysia, so it was the hottest race I ever raced. The car was perfect, especially after my first stop, and we proved again that our strongest point is the long runs. It is something unusual but I think useful for this championship. The car is very nice to drive again and I had a good fight with Michael for a few laps then with Jarno, and after the first pit stop I had a bit of room to be able to be a bit more conservative.

Q: I was going to ask about Michael - did you feel under pressure from him in the early stages?
FA: Yes, obviously, it was very close. I think he was quicker than me in the first part of the race but as we know it is very difficult to overtake and I was quite sure that my long runs would be better than him so I was not too worried if I had Michael in front of me, if he had overtaken me, because I knew that our strongest point should be at the end.

Q: Any mechanical problems, any dramas in the race at all from your point of view?
FA: No. Again, it is the third consecutive race that I have nothing to say, no problems at all, nothing in the race and in the whole weekend and this is something fantastic, something I never had before, so, it is a dream.

Q: Jarno, a spectacular first corner for you on the outside there, it looked as though you almost had Michael.
Jarno Trulli: Yeah, it was a good fight and actually the next corner I tried really hard because I think he was lighter than me, but fortunately I didn't push too much, I just followed them. At the beginning I was looking pretty good, at one stage I was catching up Fernando but I believe he was just waiting and then mid race when he started to push he pulled away and the only thing I could do was finish the race in second. It was a pretty easy race, the team has done a fantastic job over the weekend and it is a dream to be here. After two races, to podiums, two second positions, it is a great start.

Q: And how were the conditions? Before the race we talked about the heat, the sand, the rubber, how was it out there?
JT: To be honest, I didn't suffer at all. In qualifying I suffered a bit of understeering, I commented before the race, but I didn't touch the car at all in set-up and all through the race and I felt I had second in my pocket against my competitors, but against Fernando I didn't have much. But, anyway, it is good to be here.

Q: Kimi, great to see you on the podium, it was an eventful race for you after an eventful qualifying session. Talk us through it.
Kimi Raikkonen: We seem to have some difficulties in qualifying, we just don't get the speed out of it, but in the race conditions it seems to be okay, especially at the end when I could push because the car felt really easy to drive. But the race itself I was stuck behind two cars from the start so I just waited and waited until they went into the pits and then tried to go as fast as I could, then I gained some places and then I was behind I think it was Webber in the Williams and I was pushing him and was just catching him and he spun in front of me and then after that I was too far away from the two cars in front so I just came slowly back home.

Q: You had a bit of a moment running over one of the corners and then a bit of a drama with the radio before the pit stops.
KR: Yeah, I just went over the kerb a little bit and told them I damaged the car but actually it was okay. I asked the team if they could see anything but there was no answer and then when I was looking to come into the pit the second time I started to look at the lap times and (unclear) so I looked a few times and then (unclear) to come into the pit because the radio didn't work any more so I was close to running out of petrol but luckily I came into the pits and got some more.

Q: Your team-mate Pedro de la Rosa set the fastest lap of the race, so it is looking more promising for you now.
KR: Yeah, like I said the car is good in the race but we are too far away on that point when the car is good so we need to do something to be on the front row or close to the front and then we can win a race, but when we start from eighth or ninth place that is too far away.

Q: Fernando, returning to you, we don't want to detract from the celebration today, but thinking ahead to Imola, you are in great shape. Not a good day for Ferrari again here, it is going to be an interesting weekend there.
FA: Yes, we arrive at Imola as one of the favourites, one of the teams to beat, and this is good. Hopefully Ferrari are not in the best moment, they have improved with the new car but still the tyres are probably not giving them too much and I think the work Michelin did these races is just unbelievable and I hope it will continue like this.

PRESS CONFERENCE

Q: Fernando, quite a race for you. You return to the start of the European campaign having dominated the last two races, Renault has won the third of the races we have had so far, what does it all mean to you?
FA: It means we are truly competitive. We have shown in these three races, I had the rain in Australia on Saturday, if not it could be even better for me, but in a way for the team it has been a fantastic start in these hot races. Now we arrive in new conditions in Europe, tracks that all the teams know very well and we are allowed to test quite a lot and we will see how the car is there. So far the car has been difficult to beat.