Felipe, an intense, dramatic last few minutes in Q3, everybody out there right at the end, what a brilliant lap from you.
Felipe Massa: Yeah, it was tough. Qualifying was very tight. You could see that every single Q1, Q2, Q3 was always a big fight between all four drivers, and in the last one, I managed to put together a great lap and I'm very proud, especially after a very bad result in Hungary. I think we deserve it. I'm very proud about the lap, about the team's job and it's very good to start on pole position here, especially as the race tomorrow will be very tough, so it's always a good start.

Especially a year after your first pole, also here, in Turkey; a fantastic lap here, talk a little bit about turn eight and getting that lap perfect as you did.
FM: Well, turn eight is fantastic. I just managed to do it very well in qualifying. Actually, I love the corner. All weekend I've been doing very good speeds through turn eight with a good balance to the car as well so I really love the corner. I think the whole track is really nice, it's very technical to drive, difficult to find the right balance for every single part.

Lewis, you were on pole again for a milli-second there but Felipe just got you at the end. Nice looking qualifying session for you; not a brilliant first run but very quick on that second run.
Lewis Hamilton: No, it was good for me. I was quite pleased with that. In testing we've been quick but then going into qualifying – Q1 and Q2 – I didn't really seem to have the pace and just wasn't able to put a good lap together. The first timed lap in Q3 was OK but again, I was fourth and just wasn't really sure if I was going to be able to do it but I just hung it out and kept on pushing. I lost a little bit of time out of the last corner but me and Felipe were just saying, it's a very tricky corner and you know you're up on your time and you don't want to lose any and you don't want to try again too much, but still, it's been good for us, good for the team in the top four.

When you say you've had a little bit of a difficult time, how does the car feel here relative to recent races, in terms of its competitiveness tomorrow?
LH: The car feels very good. I think, again, we've had two and a half weeks or three weeks to improve the car and the team has been working extremely hard. Not everyone's had holidays and I know that the team doesn't rest. They've been pushing quite a lot to come here again with another step. I think we have a very strong package. I think for tomorrow we stand in good stead for a competitive race with the Ferraris.

No dramas in qualifying; it looked as if you reverted back to the McLaren practice of having independent pit crews there for this session.
LH: Yeah, that was a decision the team took before qualifying. Once again, we made sure that if we have any problems, the decision has to be made before qualifying, not during qualifying and they decided it was easier to have two pit crews and it worked out quite well.

Kimi, you also looked like a pole man for quite a while there. What was qualifying like for you?
Kimi Raikkonen: I think the first qualifying (sessions) were good. I made a mistake in the second one in corner nine but the car felt good and just in the last qualifying, the last lap, I had a bit of oversteer in the last two corners, but nevertheless, I think third is OK. For sure, I would rather be in first place but I think we have a good race car here. It's going to be a long race so hopefully we can fight back.

We talk a lot about the dramatic fast corners here particularly turn eight but then it's interesting to hear you and other drivers talking about the last few corners of the lap, which are relatively slow and appear to be quite easy corners.
KR Yeah, they're slow but you lose much more time in slow corners than in fast corners. They're very important corners and it's very tricky to get them right. They seem to be very slippery. You can easily destroy the lap there so that's what happened, but I think we are still in a good position for tomorrow and we will see what we can do in the race.

Felipe, your thoughts on the Ferrari - McLaren Mercedes battle tomorrow.
FM: Yeah, it will be very tough. I think we have a good race car tomorrow, as we also showed in practice, but they are going to be very competitive as well. I think it's going to be a difficult race for us, a nice race for the spectators.

Press Conference

Felipe, you're becoming a little bit of a Turkish specialist, I think.
FM: I miss this place, to be in the middle of the people, you know. It was a great lap, I'm very happy about that. It was very tight during the whole qualifying with all four drivers but I knew I had a good car and I just knew that if I put everything together I can be very very quick. I didn't have a very very good lap in Q1 and Q2, I just couldn't put the lap together but I was paying attention to where I was making mistakes to get it right when it counts. I was able to put everything together in the last run, both tries in Q3. It was a good lap, so I'm very happy to be here especially after a very bad result in Hungary.