Juan Pablo, it looked to be relatively straightforward until those closing laps, but before we get into those, let's just talk through the first phase of the race with Fernando right on your tail.
Juan Pablo Montoya: Well, I pushed really hard for the first few laps and I opened up a gap and I felt quite comfortable. We thought we were going longer than them so it was a matter of just maintaining the gap and then the car became quite oversteery. You've got a lot of adjustment in the car. I worked with it a little bit, but I never really felt comfortable with it to be able to push hard so it was like one lap you could push but the next lap it would go really bad. Generally it went pretty good but we got to the end of the race. I could see the tyre breaking up a little bit on the left but at the end it just went really bad, there was just no grip.

So how did you go into those closing laps? How can you drive the car that way bearing in mind the problems that Kimi had earlier in the year, and the problem that Kimi had in the race today, also with a tyre?
JPM: The thing was you couldn't really push or lean on the tyre or anything. It was go as slow as you can, I turned down the engine before that, so I brought it back up to full power and everything and I think that helped me a little bit. I was calculating but I couldn't go any quicker to be honest. Any quicker was a big risk to go off. When I had four seconds with two laps to go I thought it should be OK.

But you did it and this was the scene of your first Grand Prix win as well, so an emotional day for you.
JPM: Yeah, the first time I won here I couldn't spray any champagne so it was nice to do it here to be honest. It's nice, it's good for me for the championship. I think we only took a point off Renault here but it's better than nothing.

Fernando, you raced him long and hard in the early phase of the race, but when the pit stops came, it looked as though you had a slowish ‘out' lap.
Fernando Alonso: Yes, I felt I had very bad grip going out of the pits. Maybe the tyres were a little bit dirty and maybe they weren't ready on the first lap. I was penalised a little bit by this and the first laps after the pit stops I lost a little bit of time but I was lucky that I wasn't fighting with anyone so I took the race quite easily.

But you weren't far away from Juan Pablo in those closing laps.
FA: Yeah, at the end the team informed me of the tyre problem that Juan Pablo was suffering. I pushed a little bit more and like Juan Pablo, I turned the engine up again, full power and we tried to put on some pressure but maybe it was too late, but for us, second place is good. The target for the last six or seven races was to be on the podium and I am constantly on the podium and sometimes in front of Kimi, so it's OK for me.

Giancarlo, a great drive from where you qualified yesterday. Look back at that qualifying lap, shame it wasn't cleaner. If you'd started a little bit higher up the grid…
Giancarlo Fisichella: Yeah. Unfortunately yesterday I had a problem braking for turn one, I had a problem with the retardation and I couldn't stop the car. I lost more than six tenths there, so today was a bit of a difficult race for me, starting from eighth position but the car balance was good, just the grip level was really poor and it was really difficult, but the strategy was perfect. I had no problems in the pit stops so today has been a good day for me and I'm able to achieve a good third position which is what I expected from this race.

As it turned out, you were running a lot more fuel than the guys just ahead of you in the early phases of the race. Were you aware of that at the time, did you know that the pit stops were going to help you as much they did?
GF: Well, yeah, we know more or less the fuel load compared with other people. We were quite optimistic that we had more fuel than the two BARs and the two Ferraris. I was a little bit worried about Jarno's fuel, and in fact he stopped one lap before me, but on that lap I overtook him and I went through to the end in third position.

Juan Pablo, this was the first Grand Prix since the Dutch Grand Prix in 1961 with no mechanical retirements. On this sort of circuit, a relatively quick lap, I guess the traffic must have been horrendous.
JPM: Yeah, the traffic was really bad. Most of the people moved out of the way pretty quickly. I was a bit concerned right before my last stop because I had four cars ahead of me and I thought ‘Oh no' and they just told me that Fernando had pitted. You never know how much time you're going to lose. I lost about a second so it wasn't so bad. I think it was good enough that I managed to open up a gap to Fernando on that stint.

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