Two questions to you all to begin with; the first is what are you expecting here at Suzuka this weekend?
Hiroshi Yasukawa: Sixteen races are already over but now it looks like we're starting from zero again, because the points' situation is equal. So we are very excited and this Suzuka race and the next race in Brazil are very very important. We are very excited but our mission is that we are going to win.

And your hopes?
HY: I think our technical people have concentrated and they have produced a very good tyre, I believe, so we can beat our competitors.

Aguri-san, your hopes and expectations?
Aguri Suzuki: I want to say I want to win this weekend, but this is everybody's target so we can't win this race but it is an important point. We have 18 races in the Grand Prix year, but this Grand Prix is the most important for my team and also our drivers. We need to finish the race and get a good result. We are still a very small team compared to our competitors. Our development has targeted Suzuka, but it still isn't very competitive. However, already we are trying to develop the car 100 percent in our team, but anyway, it's very important for us to finish the race this weekend.

Tsutomu Tomita: As you know, we have suffered from a very miserable race in Shanghai and therefore I really hope to have a good performance here this weekend, with a good overall effort in dry conditions.

Yasuhiro Wada: The last five races have been very good including our first win so we would like to repeat those good performances. Of course, we are targeting a podium finish and the highest point would be great.

Another question to you all: what are you feelings about this being the last race here at Suzuka, at least for a little while?
YW: Well, Suzuka is a very traditional course and I understand that many drivers love it. It's a shame to miss a very traditional and fun place from the calendar. I hope some day we can come back.

TT: Last year we had a successful first place on the grid after qualifying with very unstable weather conditions, but unfortunately we made a mistake in the strategy with the three stop, so then we failed. We have to overcome that.

AS: Yes, I have two answers, one as team principal and one as a driver and my career, because Suzuka… my first answer is my personal one. My first Formula One Grand Prix was here, I got on the podium here and my last race was here. My Formula One career is everything here in Suzuka. I'm very sad that the Suzuka Grand Prix is finishing, but I'm very happy to come back in Formula One with my team here. If it was next year, I couldn't run my team at Suzuka. I don't know about the future, but I hope that Suzuka will come back on the Formula One Grand Prix calendar in the near future.

HY: For me, I have a very long experience of Suzuka because when I was young, it was in 1962 that I saw a road race for the first time here in Suzuka and I would come many many times to Suzuka and this circuit has taught me many things. At that time, I was a student and I didn't go to school, but I came here! I made many friends, especially senior persons. This has been very good experience for my business and for my life. I very much appreciated Suzuka, so it's a bit sad for me but of course, next year we are going to Fuji. This is one of the situations we have to accept in Formula One, but one day I'm coming back to Suzuka with Formula One.

Hiroshi, Jean Todt has said that tyres will decide this championship; what are your feelings about that?
HY: Is this true? Oh, this is very bad for me! The race is not only tyres, it's a package: good team, good driver, good car and tyres and then if the package is working well, then we can achieve our mission.

Next year, you will be supplying the whole field; how are you going to do that, what are your plans, how about the red tyres that we've heard about?
HY: OK, you have two questions there. For us, we prefer competition, but unfortunately our competitor is stopping. So we have to supply our tyres for all teams which means that first our mission is safety in tyres, and secondly fairness. Fairness is very important. If we support one team, this is no good. We have to provide equally quantity and quality of tyres for all teams, but this is a very very tough business, because currently we support just five teams, ten cars. But next year, eleven teams, 22 cars, which is more than double. After this season, after the Brazilian Grand Prix, we have to prepare all the logistics and warehouses, manpower, everything. This is one question.

And secondly, red tyres. I don't know about red tyres but currently the regulation is two specifications of dry tyres and we have to supply seven sets of each, which is fourteen sets. Better to use all of them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then I think we can achieve a very good fairness, this is the idea. But of course this decision is made by all the teams and the FIA, so we listen to them and their decisions. But if we are concerned about fairness, then I think it's a good idea because we have to prepare two specifications, so if everybody has to use both specifications, then I think this is a good idea.