Jenson, barely time to catch your breath from that great win in the Australian Grand Prix and here you are on the pole again. The momentum continues and fastest in Q2 here in Malaysia.
Jenson Button: This one is probably more special than in Melbourne because it is not easy to get one pole position but to have two on the trot I have never achieved that in my F1 career. This is a great feeling and it shows that the car works on different types of circuit. I expected the competition to be pretty tough here but qualifying was okay for us.

Try to put into words what it feels like to be working on the same things - oversteer, understeer, the balance of the car - but knowing that you have now got a taste of the pole and a win rather than the midfield or dare I say it the back of the grid.
JB: Well, with the car you still have the same sort of issues as when the car is slow but you are going quicker. You still have issues of understeer, oversteer and yesterday I was really struggling with the balance of the car. I had a lot of rear locking and instability and when I have that it is not my forte really. I find it difficult to drive round, so we changed the car overnight and it has improved it a lot and I feel very comfortable in the car, so it makes it exciting for tomorrow.

Jarno, a perfectly timed Q3. Out right at the end there and the soft Bridgestone looks a good tyre here. You can all get a lot of laps on that tyre. And very, very close that fight between you and Jenson.
Jarno Trulli: Yeah, I hope to do a very good race and a good fight because it is what we are looking for. It could be a nice race hopefully. I did not expect to be here today as yesterday I was struggling, as Jenson was saying. It was probably the track but I really wasn't comfortable. But we worked out some good set up, analysing the data, and making a good job with the whole team and engineers and today we got it right. In qualifying the car was spot on. It is a shame to lose a pole for a few hundredths but that's the way it is at the moment. Let's think about tomorrow.

The race starting later and qualifying later today. Talk about the conditions here. You are sweating a bit now, what is it like in the car?
JT: I tell you it is much more comfortable than it used to be. It is later in the afternoon, so some showers might occur tomorrow, so it won't be nice on that side. But on the other hand it is cooler, so it is easier for us. In general it is a technical, hard circuit and physically demanding but statistically I have always done very well here, so I am waiting to see what is the outcome of the race tomorrow. But I am very confident and I would like to thank the Panasonic Toyota team because this year so far they are doing a great job and I just hope we can carry on doing this.

Sebastian, the pace of the Red Bull continues. A fantastic qualifying performance. But going into this weekend you know you have that 10 place grid penalty given to you by the stewards after the Australian Grand Prix. How does that affect your mindset coming into this weekend?
Sebastian Vettel: I think the secret is I have the penalty, there is nothing I can do, so the secret is just to focus on what we are here for. We are here to race, so that is what we do. Of course it is a shame to see the car is performing at a good level throughout Q1, Q2 and Q3. We were more or less up there in the top five. It is good to see that but it is shame to have plus 10 tomorrow, so I think it will be a very tough day for me tomorrow but I'm looking forward. Nothing is impossible. I personally hope for some rain as it can mix it up quite a lot.

Can I ask you about the conditions here in Malaysia. How you are faring? You look pretty good right now?
SV: Yeah, thanks. I am still young. It is quite tough but the sun I have to say wasn't a big problem as it was quite cloudy rather than in Melbourne where the sun was quite low. Here we simply could not see that much and as Jarno says it is at least a little bit colder than in the mid-day heat, so I am looking forward to tomorrow. Usually the rain here comes a bit later in the day, so anything can happen here.

Jenson, it is going to be a long hot race here. We have seen you in your cool suit. Talk us a little bit about your preparation for the race tomorrow and also the feeling of being a second quicker than the fastest Ferrari and neither McLaren made it through Q2. What a change in Formula One this year.
JB: It is and it is also a big change for what we expected. Looking at yesterday's times the Ferrari to us seemed the quickest car. So it is a big turnaround today and I am obviously very happy with that. Tomorrow as it always is here is going to be hot race. It is not just the sun, it is the humidity here and you are just pouring with sweat. I have got a cool jacket which has been helping me but obviously I can't wear it in the race as it is too heavy. But I feel pretty good actually in the car. I don't feel like I am struggling too much in the heat.

Press Conference

Jenson, yesterday Ross sat up there and told us ‘don't let anyone say we're dominant'; well, a win and two poles isn't too bad is it?
JB: Well, it looks that way, doesn't it, and you're not going to believe me if I say that I didn't think we'd be here but yesterday we were surprised at the pace of some of the cars, one being the Red Bulls and one being the Ferraris. We didn't think we could do those times. I actually told Sebastian but he doesn't believe me.