Question: Mark, you are in the strongest position.
Mark Webber: The same as Fernando. We will see how the weekend shapes up but Fernando is in the best position. Then it goes a little bit down after that, so looking forward to it. It should be good.
Question: Mark, what about the engine that you had in for Brazil which was overheating?
Mark Webber: Yeah, that was a big concern in that particular event. We are going to use that engine again in the first part of the weekend. Have a look at it. Also just for a bit of peace of mind to understand what the problem was, so we are going to do that. Then for Saturday and Sunday we have a pretty decent engine ready to go. It should be alright.
Question: On Sunday there will be one guy who will be the World Champion and the three others will not be. If you are not the one how much of a disappointment will it be?
Mark Webber: I think you are going to be disappointed if it doesn’t happen initially. But there have still been a lot of positives this year. I don’t think my odds were too good at the start of the year to be fighting for the championship. My odds are much shorter now, so I still have a good chance. I will deal with what happens on Sunday night after that.
Question: Obviously it’s been an up and down year for you, Mark. Would you still describe it as the best year of your life? How do you look back on it now? A troubled year or a great year?
Mark Webber: Oh, a lot of positives mate. It’s human nature always to want more. Of course it would have been nice to close the championship out and be here as World Champion. All of us would love to have done that but at the end of the day, the way the championship has been, I think if there were even two or three races after this one it would still go down to the last race. No-one has ever had a 25 point lead. It’s been a very long season for all of us and as the season’s gone on, we’ve achieved so many amazing things, and obviously, personally, for me, to have some very special weekends. I’m fully respectful of the guys I race against and that’s what you get out of bed for, to try and beat them. So to have some of the victories that I’ve had this year, and even some of the second places to be honest, they are not as sweet as the wins, but some of the seconds… I’ve had some good fights with Seb and they have been rewarding. Quite a few podiums, the team’s won the constructors’, we could obviously put the icing on the cake on Sunday which would be nice, but it’s been an absolutely incredible year for me personally and obviously for the team. So I don’t look on two thousand… if we don’t get the championship, for sure, OK, there’s going to be a little bit of a small hole there but a lot of great memories still.
Question: Mark, all around you are surrounded by four drivers who are younger than you. How do you manage the thought that this may be your best chance, your only chance of the championship? If isn’t doesn’t come off…?
Mark Webber: I don’t know if it changes your thinking too much to be honest. I’m going to be here again next year. Of course the longer you drive, obviously, the odds are going in one direction. I’m not going to be around forever, I clearly understand that. These guys will have… (sound of dog barking) It’s a dog! There’s no dogs allowed in the paddock actually.
A hot dog. Yeah. These guys have more opportunities mate, of course. As Fernando alluded to a bit earlier in some of his answers that if you get a car like this when you’re 24 or 25 for sure, so you can probably look at it more that way, that obviously I didn’t really have a winning car earlier in my career which is the case for lots of people that come into Formula One. I now have that, been very successful at the back part of my career if you like, and hopefully I want to do it on Sunday, of course. If it doesn’t happen, I’ll obviously have another crack next year. It doesn’t change too much of my mentality mate. I know that I’ve been very fortunate even to have a chance to get to this point. I’m not getting too… not greedy but I know that it was good to have a chance that I’ve grabbed with both hands if I can.
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