Question: Jenson, it is very close and tomorrow might throw up the changeable conditions that you have often thrived in. What are your thoughts on that?
Jenson Button: You know, I think we are all excited about tomorrow. The last race of the year and we want to end on a high. But at the moment I am just enjoying the moment. This is my best qualifying for the last six years and 10 places better, I think, than last year so it’s a good start to the weekend. I always love racing here. It is such a good circuit for racing and really fighting and out of the last corner down into Turn One is very good for overtaking and obviously we have the DRS out of Turn three, so hopefully we can get these two tomorrow. I think whatever happens it has been a great season for us, just not quite good enough. There are a few areas we need to work on and, as I said, hopefully tomorrow we can end this reasonably good season with a high.
Question: Jenson, you said yesterday that you were having problems with the option, the softer tyre. Did you get over that today?
Jenson Button: Yeah, quite a bit. I still feel that I was quicker on the prime, didn’t quite have the balance in Q2 on the softer of the two tyres but made a few little adjustments for Q3 and I feel that we did the best with the car. I think the set-up was as good as we were going to get it for Q3. The lap was pretty ragged for me, but I got everything out of it, I think, so an enjoyable lap, I thought I was going to be further up the grid than I was, but it just shows you how good a job these two did and obviously their cars are working alright as well. So yeah, good day and much better than Saturday last year, and I think tomorrow’s going to be a very interesting race. There’s a good chance of rain, I’ve seen that these guys have a very slow end-of-straight speed so I’m guessing it’s a bit of downforce and a bit of something else which is going to help them tomorrow, but we are where we are and we’ve just got to hope that our car works well in the wet. It’s worked pretty well so far this year.
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Question: I think the last time you wore that driving suit was pretty lucky, wasn’t it?
Jenson Button: Yeah, this is my flower power suit, gives me a little extra push around the circuit, especially when it’s wet, the flowers grow. I have good memories of Hungary [where he wore it and won] and she’s back. Big thanks to the team today, actually, because as I’ve said, I’ve always struggled here on Saturdays, so it’s nice to qualify well, and I want to say a big thank you to them for the whole season. It hasn’t been perfect but we’ve still done a good job, I think, and it’s a good base for next year. I’m just saying this just in case I’m not here tomorrow or something happens!
Question: As you said, the rain is coming; the question is to all three of you: would you like it to rain and would it help you to win or not to win?
Jenson Button: I really don’t know. When it’s wet it’s obviously a lot more tricky. There’s a chance you could have great performance and you have a good chance of winning, but still, even if you have great performance there’s a good chance you could end up off the road, getting out of the car before the end of the race. It’s tough, especially around here. There’s a few very tricky corners if it rains. I think what they’ve done with the drainage system, putting the little grooves in the track has helped a lot but it’s still a very tricky circuit, especially when it rains hard. It’s the same for all of us. If it’s dry tomorrow, I think we will still have a good race, but the wet will obviously mix it up a lot more.
Question: You each have a few years on the grid already but can you imagine yourselves doing 19, maybe 20 years in F1 like Rubens?
Jenson Button: I’ll start because I think I’m the closest. Scarily, this is my 12th season already, yeah, 31. At the moment no, I definitely can’t imagine being here for another eight years but four or five years into Formula One I didn’t expect to be here now so time flies. As we all know, when we’re travelling around, you don’t sit still for a second so the years go by very quickly and as long as the hunger is still there, which it obviously is with Rubens, it’s great that he still wants to race. I really hope he gets a drive next year, I hope he’s racing next year because otherwise we’ve missed a really big party on Sunday night. And I think that’s the same for a lot of drivers. You’ve got to make sure that you’re ready to leave because if you leave too early and you try and come back, for a lot of us I don’t think it will work. It’s a difficult call, when you decide to retire, if it is your choice. It’s not something you take lightly or chose lightly.
Question: While the weather forecast tomorrow is for rain, have you chosen the set-up of your car only for qualifying or also thinking about 71 laps for tomorrow?
Jenson Button: I think that the set-up we’ve taken this weekend is a set-up that helps us in the wet, and it’s not been done on purpose, it’s just the way it is for us around here. There’s not a big difference. You don’t really have a massive change to the car for wet conditions but there are small things.
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