Nico, congratulations. Pole for your home grand prix and what a week it's been for you: Germany win the World Cup, you get a new contract, and you get married, and now you've got pole for you home grand prix?
Nico Rosberg: Thank you very much, yes. For now it's been going really, really well. It's great, home race here and to be on pole is fantastic. Of course I would have preferred if it was an open fight with Lewis. A little bit less happy as a result because Lewis didn't have a shot at it in the end. But all in all, still a fantastic day up to now, but no points for today. [The} important [part] is just tomorrow, still a long way to go but it's still a good start.

Very well done. Valtteri, it looked like quite a calm session; you worked your way through Q1 to Q2 to Q3 in a very methodical way. You looked fairly untroubled but do you think you could have got a bit closer to Nico or even challenged him?
Valtteri Bottas: Yeah, I must say we must again be really happy with the result we got today as a team, second and third, so well done to everyone, but I think Mercedes is still ahead. The lap I had in the end was no mistakes and a really nice, so I really I felt I got everything out of the car today.

Very well done. Felipe, Williams once again up towards the front in qualifying. What do you put this performance down to and where do you feel you lost out to Valtteri today?
Felipe Massa: Yeah, for sure I think I was struggling to put the lap together, so I had some movement from the tyres and I was not able to have a perfect car - just to put all the sectors together. I was able to do one sector better in one way, the other sector better in the other way. The car was not 100 per cent perfect in terms of set-up to put the perfect lap and Valtteri did really a very good lap. But anyway I'm still quite happy with the result and I'm quite happy with our car and for sure in the race the conditions are completely different, the feeling of the car as well is different, so let's try to a very good job tomorrow as well.

Coming back to you Nico. What have you heard from the team about Lewis' situation and also what are your thoughts about the race tomorrow, particularly with these incredibly high temperatures we're experiencing here in Hockenheim?
NR: I don't any details about the other car. I just knew it didn't apply to my car, so from that point of view I was comfortable that I could keep on pushing. For tomorrow, it's supposed to be a bit colder, which will make it easier on the tyres, because the tyres are very, very soft so degradation is high. And of course the weather could play a role, so just need to take it as it comes.

Press Conference

Nico, firstly in Q1, a bit of a scare at the start. You seemed to go off the road a couple of times and with about five minutes to go after the red flag stoppage you went out on a set of super-softs, which is very unusual for you. Obviously you were feeling the pressure at that point. And also could you clear up, you mentioned before Lewis' situation didn't apply to you - that's because I understand you run two different types of brakes between you. Maybe you could explain a little bit about that.
NR: Yeah, so quali one, I had problem with my brakes to start off in qualifying because we changed them for qualifying. It didn't feel good, the whole of qualifying really I was struggling with that. Sort of found my way then - but it was especially difficult in the beginning in quali one, really difficult. And then, yeah, brakes, we run two different brakes between us. So, the problem that he had didn't apply to my car as a result.

It was a disc failure?
NR: I'm not sure of the details.

Valtteri, a general question - just to sum up your feelings how it feels at this early stage of your career to be running at the front all of the time.
VB: I feel really happy to be part of this team as we are really on the right way and again, a strong result from us as a team and from me and Felipe. So, it's good to be part of this. We are really focussing to get better and better. The race is tomorrow, there's no points for today. We need to focus on that, again trying to do the perfect job if we can and get the maximum points available.

Felipe, Nico was saying earlier he thinks it's going to be a little cooler tomorrow - which is obviously good news from the car and tyre point of view - but maybe you could put into words for us how you think these tyres are going to perform here tomorrow, what the challenges you think will be in tomorrow's grand prix given the relative temperatures.
FM: I think it will be a big challenge for everybody. So, we're running super-soft and soft, definitely is not 100 per cent easy to keep the tyres in the good shape all the time, every lap, so the consistency... it's not very easy to be there every lap, so maybe we will see more stops than at other races - I don't know. Definitely having a little bit less temperature in the track will help a little bit, especially our cars so I hope this can be a good help for us tomorrow to make these tyres a little bit more consistent and trying to make the strategy the best way as well. But it's always a big challenge tomorrow in the race.

Nico, you're looking at the replay there of Lewis' accident. Your thoughts?
NR: I hadn't seen it yet - but it looks pretty bad but I hear he's OK and just a little bit bruised on the knees.