Coulthard and Barrichello press conference

David, congratulations on having opened your world championship points account. How was your car performing today?

It definitely felt better as the race went on, and the second set of tyres worked much better for me. I struggled with a bit of oversteer on the first set.

It is always difficult to judge how much change [in handling] there is going to be between warm-up and the race, especially when the temperature goes up as much as it did today.

In hindsight, maybe I could have taken a little more mechanical grip off the nose, but otherwise I had no problems.

Was Mika on the same one-stop strategy as you?

We will never know! Obviously I don't want to give away any of the team's secrets, and you know now that I was on a one-stop strategy.

I think that would have been good enough to have won the race for me today, apart from the obvious difficulties of getting through the traffic.

It seemed particularly bad here - worse than I can ever remember - and a couple of the drivers didn't seem to respond to the blue flags. I think the circuit marshals did a reasonable job in using the flags, but [certain competitors] were not too keen to move over.

On the podium you seemed to be upset ...

I am disappointed. Today I lost a race that I should have won. But because of factors other than the performance of the car and my driving, we didn't win it.

That does not take anything away from the achievements of Michael or Ferrari, but we had the correct strategy and a quick enough package to have won. Not to have come away with a win in those circumstances is disappointing.

I have to thank Michael for persuading the fans not to boo too much when I received my trophy, because they obviously remember Spa last year. Without Michael's actions it would have been a little uncomfortable to have been up there as someone that the fans may
still hold responsible for Michael not winning the championship last year.

Rubens, congratulations on giving Stewart and Ford their second podium
finish in two years. How do you feel?

I want to dedicate this success to Ayrton. This is the place, I believe, where my life changed.

After everything I have been through, from the problems on the car to the problems with myself, I think that Imola this year has seen another changing point.

The car was competitive and we had no problems in the race, even though we decided to run to the lower rev limit in order to get to the finish.

The first set of tyres was the best: on the other two, I had a little too much oversteer, which cost me a bit of time. I was also lucky that the other McLaren and the other Ferrari were not there at the finish. But you need to be lucky to be here on the podium.

Still, it is a changing point in my career. This year I have a competitive car which allows me to show people what I am capable of doing. We don't know whether we can be as quick as the Ferrari and the McLaren, but that is our target and we are making progress all the time.