Sakon, I'm sure it was a relief to finally finish your first Grand Prix last weekend; what's been going wrong up until now?
Sakon Yamamoto: Well, it has certainly been difficult for me, and for everyone in the team, but our team members worked really well, so finally I could finish a race and it meant a lot to me.

You came into Formula One halfway through the season; have you found it difficult?
SY: Well, it was difficult for me to find out about the level of Formula One, especially the technology and the people, but I can really enjoy that.

You're becoming a little bit more comfortable with that now.
SY: Yeah, for sure, yeah. I always try to do my best and I'm getting better step by step.

Takuma, you've had some great performances here; what are your feelings coming here to your home race and particularly the last Grand Prix here for a while?
Takuma Sato: Yeah, I think I enjoy the driving, the challenge of coming here. It's always a challenge coming here. It's very demanding for the drivers, the cars and the teams so we all love Suzuka. We've heard the story that the Japanese Grand Prix will move over. It's obviously sad, but taking the positive side, it's obvious that this year will be enormously enthusiastic for everybody coming here, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Is it very tough on you as the focus of so many Japanese fans?
TS: Yes, we will, hopefully, be the main focus for this weekend, but to be honest, let's talk about the whole season. For us it's been a tremendous challenge this year and to be at the back of the grid all the time, it is very very difficult to motivate everybody, but I think we have achieved everything we wanted and that's why I have really enjoyed every part of it. So coming here, especially after Shanghai where we had a really strong race, and I think it was absolutely a team effort to battle with other teams at the same level and to beat our nearest rivals in a straight fight. That gives us really good motivation and great momentum to come to Suzuka.

What was your view of the incident on the last lap at the hairpin in Shanghai?
TS: Well, I don't think I did a wrong thing. The facts were that three laps before I let Nick past because he obviously caught me up in the normal way and I let him go. But obviously after we had the rain and under those circumstances I was quicker and I caught him and then he simply ran wide into turn one and I overtook him. Afterwards, I saw that we had very similar pace and there was a blue flag situation. So then we went into the last corner, unfortunately six cars just all coming together. That was a really unfortunate moment, but I do really strongly think I did everything right.

Jarno, a best of fifth here, what do you feel about this circuit, this race?
Jarno Trulli: Well, obviously Suzuka is a very nice challenging circuit. I like it very much. It's our home race for Toyota so we expect to be challenging strongly, and I hope to do a good weekend.

But the last few races haven't been fantastic for you, however.
JT: Monza, wasn't too bad but obviously I made a mistake over the tyre choice in Turkey and the last Grand Prix was a bit unfortunate for both drivers because the weekend started wrongly from qualifying when we had a red flag at the wrong moment, otherwise we would both have been in quite easily. From that time on, it was very difficult to recover from the back, because we were stuck behind Coulthard all the time, all the race and then when we gambled on dry tyres, that was obviously a big risk. We took it but it didn't work.

So you feel that you should have been in the points.
JT: We cannot really judge the last race. In Monza I finished seventh. We were very competitive in Turkey. Ralf's tyre choice was good and he was very competitive, so in the end I believe that the team has got good potential but sometimes we don't use the full potential during the weekend because we still have to manage to get the right choice.

Fernando, 16th to third last year; that was pretty good wasn't it?
Fernando Alonso: Yeah, it was good, I think it was good for everybody. There were two or three quick cars starting from the back because of the qualifying in wet conditions and the race was very interesting with a lot of overtaking manoeuvres, I remember, and it was good, but I prefer to start at the front and not have to recover so many places.

It could be wet again according to the weather forecasts; what are your feelings about that?
FA: It's not a problem for us. I really think it doesn't matter what weather conditions we have this weekend. I think we are competitive in wet, we are competitive in dry. I prefer dry conditions for the race, because it's better for the people here, for the grandstand, for us as well, a more normal race. In wet conditions we always see so many different things happening in the race, up and down, so probably a dry race would be better for everybody.

Because it's a bit more predictable for the drivers in that way?
FA: Yeah, for the teams, for the strategies, for everything. I think normally in dry conditions, we have more normal races. In wet conditions it can be very good, it can be very bad.