Rubens Barrichello Q&A

Q: Will we see another win this weekend?

"It depends very much on how the car performs over the weekend, but so far so good. The car seems to be doing quite well. We just have to wait and see."



"The second option is the better one. I go for the wins. This year is much better than any other year. I've been into it, so I'm sure I can win more often. Therefore the position at the end of the championship will come because of those wins. So we'll see."



"Yes, we have to be open for everything, very flexible. Anything can happen, and that's the way it goes. For me I like it, actually, I like the intermediate situation. I think it suits me, and because I like it I can go fast."



"Absolutely. The tyres are doing the job fantastically, so we're quite happy."



"It's already part of the past anyway, but for me it was a good feeling because I had a good start and I was fighting for it. When I saw Michael pushing I was pushing as well, but controlling very well the pace. We were opening up a good gap on the third car. In Nurburgring the only problem we might have had was if we pushed too hard to begin with, and we might have blistered the tyres. So that's what I took care of after the first stop, because I tend to look after the tyres for when I had to push. I concentrated on keeping the tyres alive for me when it mattered."



"It was a good race, but I was really in control the whole time, which was good. When you are at the front it's much easier to control things than when you're at the back. You know the gap, and the car was good in any case. When I left the pits on the third set it was actually the best feeling - I went into T1 so much faster, and then it was the time to conserve."



"You don't have to be careful. I've always taken the chance to improve my position into the first corner and so on, so sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Where the corner went to the right I backed off a little bit. Everyone went into the corner so mad, I just released the brakes and let the car roll and I was in a good position to the exit."



"To be honest I've felt relaxed since the beginning of the year. I've been fighting since the beginning of the season. It doesn't matter whether it was contract time. I'm feeling good with the car, that's what it means. If I had really to push myself hard to show Jean or Ross that I can do the job, I probably wouldn't do it."



"Not really! The first one took seven years, the second one took a little less..."



"It depends from race to race. At Nurburgring we were on the same strategy because that's the only way we could do it. In Canada I was on a softer tyre so therefore I actually pushed Ross to put me on a different one. So it depends very much on the strategy."



"I like to get the joy out of it. You win, you lose. But it doesn't mean that I want to go for four stops because I want to be first on the first corner and then I give up. That's not what I want. What I want is to get everything out of it to win the race."



"I'm scared that it's not going to come back..."