Michael, obviously a difficult day, none of the Michelin runners competing after that first lap, after the formation lap, but nonetheless, you were out there, you were racing and it looked pretty close between you and Rubens as you came out from your second pit stop.
Michael Schumacher: Yeah, very close, I would say. It was quite a race the two of us had going. It was only the two of us and the team said 'let's go and have fun' and that's what we had between the two of us. Obviously it was a bit of a strange Grand Prix, not the right way to win my first one this year but one of these out of 84 is not a big disaster.

We saw some debris being thrown on the track unfortunately, what were the track conditions like? We saw your left rear tyre being examined quite closely in the first pit stop.
MS: It was mainly bottles, a bit of beer, as far as I could smell, in the first corner, but conditions were OK, no problem.

Can you describe your emotions as the start approached. You presumably knew what the Michelin drivers were going to do, or suspected what they were going to do. What was going on inside your head?
MS: We didn't know exactly what they were going to do. We heard certain things, but we were simply concentrating on ourselves, honestly.

And a good team performance, reliability was there and you've won a Grand Prix again, you've broken that second longest losing streak you've had since '93.
MS: Yeah, but, well. Obviously with Rubens it was a close fight, but other than that, it was a bit of an odd Grand Prix.

Rubens, helping Ferrari to their fourth one-two in six years here at Indianapolis. Talk us through that moment from your point of view, as Michael came out from his second pit stop?
Rubens Barrichello: It was very close. I managed to open up the gap to 3.1s/3.2s and I thought I had it covered. I had a good 'out' lap but all of a sudden I saw him coming and obviously I had to try to keep in front. But then I couldn't make the corner, basically, and I went straight through. A sad race, to be very honest, to see all the cars going into the pits - you know, in a way, you feel like going into the pits as well. It wasn't our problem, people probably won't understand that because they seem to be sad… you know, there were a lot of people out there still watching us but they will think that we had the problem, but obviously Bridgestone has been working very hard, they brought the right tyre here and we were feeling very good. I think that we could have done really well, even better, if they were on the race track but they were not, so sad race. I was pushing like hell and I was pushing Michael. Unfortunately I couldn't have the right strategy at that time, but I had a good race and a sad race.

Any problems during your race in terms of track conditions, debris on the circuit?
RB: Yeah, I could see the bits flying as well. If I had had a microphone at that time I would have quite rightly explained the situation to the guys. It's just sad because we've, as Ferrari, have been in trouble here in the past and people didn't understand that and all of a sudden it seemed that we were the problem, but quite the opposite.

Tiago, congratulations, Jordan's first podium since they won the Brazilian Grand Prix, and now the first Portuguese ever driver on the podium as well. Your emotions?
Tiago Monteiro: Obviously, mixed feelings. I can't be as sad as the others because anyway, even if it was a weird race, strange race, you had to finish, you had to be there. Like them, I had a battle with my teammate, a hard fight at the beginning and then I managed to make a gap between us. I wasn't joking, no one on the track was kidding around, there were just less cars. I didn't know what to think, it was a very weird situation but I'm so happy, so happy for myself, for the team. You should have seen their faces. Even if it was a weird situation it was still a podium. I'm so excited and happy to be here. Again, it's my first year and I've finished nine races in a row including a podium. It's just great. I know it's weird conditions but still, no one is going to take that away from me and I shall thank everyone who did a great job so far - amazing.

And your race? Relatively troublefree from your point of view?
TM: Yes. I was heavier than my teammate right from the beginning so I knew that even if he was going to follow me closely in the pits we could have done something but I managed to put in a gap pretty early and just kept focussed, I pushed, I pushed hard. I was quicker than my qualifying time. Bridgestone did an amazing job with the tyres, they are getting better and better, no problems compared to Michelin obviously, but also in race pace they are getting amazingly better so this is another good point. Of course I saw the glasses and cups and stuff. In a way I can understand the public but it could be dangerous for us. I must say it was a weird Grand Prix but I'm so excited.

Michael, back to you, you and Ferrari have huge support here in the United States. A few words for the Formula One race fans here in America.
MS: Obviously I would have wished to fight this race under normal circumstances. As you say, there were a lot of supporters here, we have been winning here three times so far. This is victory number four. I think we had a very good car this weekend, which was strongish in qualifying, but very strong in race conditions. I think we had a very fair chance anyway to fight for the victory today, but yeah, what is good is that so many supporters stayed to support us until the end and wanted to see how this very unique Grand Prix would finish.

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