First all Ferrari front row, and another first for you, fastest in qualifying, quickest in Q2 for the first time this year.
Kimi Raikkonen: Yeah, it was good, but actually in the last qualifying, after the first run I found the car was not the same any more as it was. I think there is a little problem at the rear of the car but I still decided to try and improve my lap time and I managed to do it, but it doesn't feel exactly right. But we can check it later. I'm happy to be on the pole, it's good here, and it was a good result for the team.

Well, a demanding circuit on which to have such a problem, particularly after the incidents at Monza last week. Tell us about the state of your neck at the moment and indeed, your love of this circuit.
KR: No, the neck is OK. For sure it's not 100 percent right but it should be fine. The circuit is very nice. I think most people like it here, it's a proper circuit for Formula One cars, long corners and it's very flowing, excellent to drive. I always like it here and it seems to be very good for me.

What a difference a week makes compared with the Ferrari performance at Monza, relative to McLaren-Mercedes. Here at Spa, the car looks great.
KR: Yeah, we knew that Monza was going to be a bit tricky for us and this is a bit more (similar) to Turkey, Istanbul, so we expect to be strong again here, but it's going to be very close tomorrow and we just to need the best that we can. I think we are in a good position with both cars, so we will see what we can do.

Felipe, the first Ferrari front row of the season. It's been a little bit of an up and down weekend. It began with an off on cold tyres yesterday morning but here you are on the front row.
Felipe Massa: Yeah, that was a small issue, just on the first lap on Friday but today I think we are back in the competition, especially looking at the last race where McLaren were a bit stronger. Here we look pretty competitive. It's pretty close, isn't it? Qualifying was so close between the drivers and I just almost… I just locked the wheels in the last chicane where I think I lost a little bit which maybe caused a bit of a problem but anyway, I'm happy with the lap and I'm happy with the car as well, also with the strategy.

That last chicane, and indeed the last sector perhaps defining the lap for many drivers. It's a long lap here, maybe difficult to keep the tyres perfect throughout the lap on that quick lap.
FM: Yeah, for sure, I was pretty happy on my lap until I got to the last corner and maybe I just was a little bit too enthusiastic and I tried to gain even more lap time but I lost a little bit. Anyway, I think it was a good lap, it's not so easy to keep the tyres working perfectly, from the beginning to the end, but it seems to work in a reasonable way.

And how do you enjoy the fast corners here in the Ferrari?
FM: Well, it's very good. For sure Eau Rouge isn't a very demanding corner any more but we have many many others like turn 10, like many quick changes of direction which I enjoy a lot, this kind of circuit, and it's always nice to come back to Spa.

Fernando, what happened on your first run there, going into that tight right hander?
Fernando Alonso: Yeah, I lost control of the car completely. I spun and the first set of tyres were just gone at that moment. I had only one chance, at the end, with the last new set of tyres, only one opportunity, so I was a little bit worried that something might happen on that single lap. Maybe my position was not good enough, but everything went smoothly on the lap, with no more problems and I was lucky to make the last lap good enough to be in the front.

What's the feeling within the team regarding the Ferrari performance here, how quick they are, and how quick you can be in race conditions?
FA: We are quite confident. To be honest, as they said, we all knew that Spa was maybe a little bit more like Turkey and we saw the Ferraris very strong there, so we expected them to be strong and fighting for the win tomorrow. But we made some improvements on the car from Turkey as well and it should pay off tomorrow in the race. I don't know if we can fight with them for the victory but it will not be an easy one for them, as it was in Turkey. I hope.

Kimi, obviously in a great position, but an interesting first corner at Spa, perhaps the most interesting of the year, that tight right hander.
KR: Yeah, it's always going to be a good challenge, not so much when you're in front, but in the middle and towards the back, something usually goes wrong there every year, so it will be interesting, but I think we should have a good start and we try to go from there. Hopefully everything goes right.

Press Conference

Kimi, well done, the speeds have been pretty remarkable around here, the lap times.
KR: I don't know. Compared to maybe some past years, but the circuit has been changed, so it's been pretty difficult to compare.

But the car has been perfect?
KR: Not all weekend, but I think today it's been pretty good. We had some problems on the second attempt. The rear of the car doesn't feel good, but hopefully we can find the issue and fix it.