Mika Hakkinen Q&A

"The team has not released any information yet about the thing that happened at the start. We are not sure yet. We just have to be patient about it. We're going to hear today or tonight or tomorrow. The whole thing is not going to change the result."



"It gets tougher and tougher, obviously."



"I'm not going to start giving up anything yet or giving anyway anything yet. I'm going to charge flat out until mathematically no possibility to be in a winning position at the end of the season. So I'm going to fight all the way."



"Simply I don't know how else to handle it. I think this is the best way to do it. For me to be upset will not take me any further in this situation."



"Oh yeah. In a big way."



"Exactly. It was the same. In Brazil I had a similar situation, but I jumped out of the car, because I didn't want to stay there. I was penalised because I did that. Actually it was because I didn't put the steering wheel back in Brazil, that's why I was more or less penalised, so I decided to stay in the car. It wasn't as scary a moment here as it was in Brazil, because here the drivers can see if a car is stopped on the starting grid, but in Brazil it's more difficult because the last corner is on the start/finish line."



"Yes, there was already a problem. That's why the car didn't accelerate any more. It was already finished at that time."



"I was surprised, too, that there were four cars in the same place. I wondered whose garage was in that place where these four cars stopped!"



"Well, I think that's the case really now."