Cristiano da Matta Q&A

"I think when we came here we were hoping to finish the race, but performance wise we never thought that we would be as far behind as we showed up today. We knew we would have a lot of work to do, but we actually have more than we thought."



"We know where we are lacking. One thing that surprises me a lot is that we've already made a lot of progress with this year's car, aerodynamic-wise and everything else, from when we first came out in January to now. We improved a lot, but there's still a lot to do. We'll keep pushing. The difference between now and last year is that we have a good guy guiding us. I think Mike is doing a good job, we just have to give him a little bit more time."



"Not only on the race weekend, but throughout the off season. I think he's already made a difference with the development of the car back in Cologne."



"We were counting a little bit on that. We thought it was something that we had under control. We knew that many of the other guys had it under control too, but we didn't expect that many cars to finish races."



"No, I don't think so. I don't think that the problem is power related. It's a little bit more."



"It was normal. The start was not bad, and I passed one car. I passed Kimi because he had some problem at the start, I don't know what. But in the middle of he first lap he was able to pass me back again."



"Yes, I was on my own a lot. I had a little bit of a fight with Massa and Heidfeld, but that was it. It was quite quiet for me, just pushing, pushing, pushing and not going very fast."



"Ricardo [Zonta] and Ryan Briscoe are running. I think we'll have a few little pieces, nothing really big, but we'll have a couple of small things for Malaysia. Also Malaysia could be a track that suits our car a little bit better than here. At least we hope, because otherwise we'll have a similar performance to here."



"There are more quick corners, and it's more flowing than this track, so it should be a little bit better."