Q & A with Mark Webber

Q: What did you think of the new safety car test?

Mark Webber: "It worked OK for me in the car. I just kept the number on the steering wheel. We tried it at Barcelona anyway. It's OK."

Q: How does it work?

Webber: "You just get a plus or minus delta that you have to work against; SC1, SC2... it's as confusing as anything, but that's the way we've got to try to do it. It's not confusing for us in the car, but for you guys, to try to explain it? All the best.

"You've got a set speed - if you've got plus then you can speed up, but if we go too quick then it goes negative."

Q: Nico Rosberg suggested that he had a problem with trying to watch the steering wheel instead of the road

Webber: "Exactly. I'd prefer to watch the road, but this new rule is... to get the most out of the system, as we always try to do in Formula One, we do the fastest laps we can within the target. It should be OK, but on a track full of marbles, you might have someone who is not concentrating fully on the track. But it should be OK."

Q: Why did so many people go off the track today?

Webber: "There's a bit of wind floating around - I think wind was one thing. I didn't see all the incidents because I was out there myself, and had a few moments myself. That was wind. And once you get on that kerb, it sucks you behind the kerb, really. That kerb's quite severe - severe for the car, and severe for your back."

Q: A lot of people appeared to struggle with the soft tyres.

Webber: "I actually got Felipe Massa on my last lap. I can make it survive the whole lap. It should be alright for us. It's not an amazing tyre over one lap, but it's not going away before the end of the lap. But we're dog slow, so it doesn't really make a difference."

Q: The FIA says Max Mosley sent letters to drivers on June 6 offering to discuss the superlicence issues and had no replies. Did you get a letter?

Webber: "Yeah I got a letter. My personal opinion on that is that I wasn't worried about going and meeting Max. I don't need to go and see him about anything. I asked the other GPDA members and they said that they were going to send something. I don't know whether they have or they haven't, but I have no interest in going to a meeting about it."

Q: Why not?

Webber: "I don't need to go and see him. About anything."

Q: Not about the money you have to pay for a superlicence?

Webber: "Any type of meeting. I'm not interested in going to see him about anything. It's not my problem."

Q: So are you saying you would rather meet with Bernie than Max?

Webber: "It's just hard... because Max doesn't come to races, so it's hard to get us all in the same place. We're happy to meet him, but to have 23 of us go to meet him is not logistically easy. It's better for him to come to races, obviously."

Q: And what about all this talk of a strike?

Webber: "It's not going to happen. We've been talking about this issue since Melbourne. Melbourne was the race that was most likely... if anything. It's not going to happen."

Q: What do you think the solution is?

Webber: "We might find one. Unlikely."

Q: How much input do you have into race strategy?

Webber: "We're given a little bit of input obviously, but we have guys who do the whole simulation, do the strategy and work out tyre degradation and fuel loads... they've got so much more information at their fingertips than we've got."

Q: So do you trust entirely in what they come up with?

Webber: "You get a feeling if it's suicide in a strategy. In Canada... there's always a strategy where you can have a bit of hindsight about how you could have done it differently, but you have to make the decision and go for it.

"Places like Montreal obviously there is an element of luck involved, with safety cars and all that, but in your normal, boring Grand Prix with no safety cars and we have to make calls on strategy, it should be pretty straightforward.

"But we will know - if the team tell me I am plus one or plus two laps on my general strategy, it's because they were trying to protect me against the guy in the next round of stops, like against Fernando [Alonso] in Malaysia. They move the strategy around a bit."

Q: What was the problem with the car today?

Webber: "Hairpin, really. Rears locking in the hairpin, getting off the hairpin... in the low-speed stuff I am not that happy with the car at the moment. So we'll make a few changes tonight and probably go back to what we know, to be honest, We tried a few new things today.

"We suffered here last year as well. Don't know why. At Barcelona we were very happy - it worked well for us last week, Barcelona. But not here. So maybe bring Silverstone a bit quicker. It's a unique place, and at the moment we're not that strong."

Q: Are you shocked to be behind Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel?

Webber: "He's quick. He's quick."

Q: Has he found something?

Webber: "He's obviously confident here. We know he's quick and... it's about time he turned up!"