Podium Interview - Conducted by Nelson Piquet

Nico, what a fantastic race you did. I was really impressed with all your performance. Your father must be very proud of you. But I want to ask you one thing. Of course you are driving there, with Hamilton behind you and with DRS. Do you think this is fair?
Nico Rosberg: First of all, thank you very, great to see you. No, I'm very happy with the whole weekend. The whole weekend I've been feeling comfortable in the car, I was able to attack and control the gap also to Lewis in the race. So that worked out great and I'm very, very happy. Especially in Brazil. The atmosphere is fantastic and also great to see the support that you're giving Felipe here, that's awesome, and also for me. So obrigado.

Hamilton, I have been for a long time very jealous of you - not only of your driving but also of your old girlfriend. Where is Nicole?
Lewis Hamilton: She's at home.

OK, say hello to her and you did fantastic. I think everything will stay in the last race. It's very good. Felipe, fantastic. I have to say in English first. He did a very good race. I want to ask him. What is he going to do to prepare himself to always keep Button behind him?
Felipe Massa: First of all, I'm so happy for my race. So many mistakes also in my race. I had the drive through, the five seconds for the penalty for the sped limiter. Also I stop in the McLaren [pit box] because it was a similar and it just was prepared before my garage. But the car was fantastic, I'm so grateful for the pace.

Back to Lewis. Tell me about the race? I think it was a very, very difficult race, and I think everything will finish in one race at the end of the year.
LH: It was an amazing race; I had a great time. Obviously I had a big mistake in the mid part of the race but otherwise the car was fantastic, the team did an amazing job and it was a great race with Nico. And great to see Felipe up here. We had the best crowd today. I enjoyed it.

And what do you think about Abu Dhabi?
LH: I'm going to drive pretty much the same. Hopefully I'll improve. Today, obviously, I lost a little bit of time but otherwise it's everything to play for in the last race.

Press Conference

So Nico, many congratulations, you've taken it down to the wire then. Pole position trophy won yesterday and then an important win today. Is this one of your best? How good does it feel to have delivered today under pressure?
NR: Yeah, it was a great weekend all in all. Austin was a tough day for me on Sunday, so yeah, it was important for me to just improve, because just didn't do a good enough job in the race in Austin. Today I managed to do that, so that I'm happy about. I learned from Austin and did better so that's a big step in the right direction. One race too late but, y'know, there's still all to play for. Now I'm just hoping for [Abu Dhabi] and need to try and keep this going now. Really feeling good in the car and everything. And it was a great race with Lewis. He had a great race too, just behind me all the time. I always needed to make sure that the gap was always such that there was no chance for him to go for the overtake - unlike Austin. And managed to do that, so that was good.

Lewis, with a 17-point lead the numbers still favour you going into that title showdown - but at the end there we heard your team say to you on the radio "sorry for the stop". You tried to do two hot laps coming into your second stop, you were fastest lap of the race on the first one but then you spun on the second one, dropped seven seconds to Nico. You managed to close it up - but do you think that spin cost you chance of a victory today?
LH: I think ultimately it cost me the win, yeah. I mean, I was much quicker up until that point and on that lap I'd gone a second quicker whilst Nico pitted and I thought I was going to pit at the end of that lap so I used everything of the tyres. The next lap, I had nothing left. Either way, at the end of the day, I made a mistake, I locked the rears into Turn Four and with the under-rotation, just spun me around. Second time it's happened this weekend. So, no-one's fault but mine. Still, great result for the team. Nico drove really well, great, defensive, no mistakes and ultimately we got a one-two. I really was pushing right to the chequered flag, which is what motor racing's all about. So I really enjoyed it.

It is a record, 11 one-two finishes, beaten the record of Senna and Prost from 1988 - just a quick word from the two of you on another one-two.
NR: It's fantastic. The team is doing such an awesome job, all-in-all. Just keeping on pushing, development rate through the year also. It's so great to be a part of that movement. And you can feel it in the team. Everybody is really, really pumped and just fully head-down focussed all the way. Because it's also… it's a change now. We used to be always hunting and now we're the hunted, and that's a big change. It's great to see how the team has adapted and not slackened off because that is always difficult, when you get to the front to then stay there. It seems at the moment that we're really going strong and that's fantastic.

Lewis, nice bit of history?
LH: Absolutely incredible. This year as a team we've broken a couple of records and it's just an unbelievable job by the team, obviously for us to be able to finish one-two, great reliability and ultimately the car has been the best car I've ever driven so big thank you to all the guys at the factory.

Felipe, great response from the crowd here to you today. It's like a win. Obviously you managed to survive quite a lot of things in that race: a penalty you had to serve for speeding in the pitlane; you went and paid a visit to another pitbox on your way to your own - but you managed to recover from that and get the podium you so badly wanted here this weekend. What made the difference for you today?
FM: I think the race was amazing. Everything that happened in my race today. So, I think the most important thing was that the pace was there, the car was quick. I've been so happy with the car during the whole all weekend. The car was so competitive - unfortunately not enough to beat these guys here, which is winning all the races. I'm so happy with the race, not happy with my mistakes today. Just got a problem when I braked for the pitstop, I pressed the pit-limiter but for whatever reason the pit-limiter was not inside, and then just past the speed I brake, I press again and it was a problem I had today. And then I managed to catch the guys trying to put the gap again. The car was fantastic. I managed to overtake many cars, catch Button as well, that he was in front. Then I stop. I was opening the gap compared to Jenson for about five, six seconds, maybe even more. Then I stop in the wrong garage. I stop in the McLaren because they change our garage this race and we are a lot more in the middle and McLaren with the similar colour - not white but y'know - I thought it was our garage. They were ready. Then I just stopped there and lost a lot of time because of that. But anyway, it was not enough to… pushing again, doing quick laps all the time and managing the tyres and just opening again compared to Jenson. It was really a fantastic race, and these people… they're still here, singing and screaming. It's amazing. The whole energy that I had this weekend, it's difficult to explain. Difficult to explain the emotion - so thank you very much for all of our Torcida [fan club] that was pushing the whole weekend, every day. It was amazing.