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Question: Mark, you were only a tenth away from Sebastian. The margin is very, very tight so can you finish the season with that elusive win?
Mark Webber: Yeah, it would be good mate. Today’s qualy went very well. The whole weekend has been pretty strong and it would be nice to keep the heat on Sebastian. Both of us have got the maximum out of the car today. Unfortunately I could not look after Nigel today and get pole, but Seb did a good lap as usual and my lap was pretty good as well to be honest. We both got the best out of the car so looking forward to the race tomorrow.
Question: Mark, you have won from second on the grid here and here you are, second on the grid again.
Mark Webber: Yeah, it was a good qualifying session, all in all, very tight at the end of Q3 there between most of us. Seb just had that extra tenth to grab the pole, so disappointing (for me). I tried to help old Nigel (Mansell) out today but it didn’t work out, so a good lap for Seb. In the end, I’m happy to be at the front for the start of the race tomorrow.
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Question: What were the conditions like; you said they were pretty difficult yesterday?
Mark Webber: Yes, I think because of the track temperature, also pretty windy. When the track is around 50 degrees, it’s challenging for the car balance, how the tyres behave, all that sort of stuff. It’s the same for everybody and today wasn’t too dissimilar. Obviously by qualifying the temperature had dropped, with a bit of cloud cover and in the end - we’ve always been towards the front this weekend - it was obviously just a question of who was going to get pole. Obviously with the run that Seb’s had, obviously it takes a big arm-wrestle to get it off him. I was close, but not quite close enough.
Question: Well, you got your own trophy yesterday for fastest laps.
Mark Webber: Yes, it was nice of DHL, I must say. It was a lot better than a lot of the trophies we get on the podium; a lot of them on the podium are quite boring but there was a bit of imagination to that one, so it was quite a nice trophy and also a beautiful Rolex, so that was nice. So thanks to DHL for that and yeah, it was good.
Question: What are you looking for from tomorrow - obviously a win but second in the championship as well?
Mark Webber: I’m not overly bothered by that. It would be nice, of course, and if you had a choice, you would always take second over fourth, fifth, sixth or whatever. JB’s had a great season, so has Fernando, given the car that he’s got, so all in all, yes, leave me tomorrow with a win, obviously. If it’s in the fence, it’s in the fence, but a win would be nice.
Question: Would you like it to rain and would it help you to win or not to win?
Mark Webber: Yeah, the guys have touched on it. Obviously the car is more consistent, more controllable in a way when it’s a dry track. As it’s one of the trickier venues when it’s wet but it’s a challenge to a grand prix driver obviously to perform in all conditions within reason. Obviously Charlie looked after us a few years ago in qualifying after we had a few crashes of course, but generally… we will see how heavily it rains tomorrow, if it does at all. Let’s see how the conditions are, but it should be OK. Visibility is the main thing. If we can see where we’re going, then we can have a race.
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?
Mark Webber: Rubens has been an amazing man for our sport, for sure. He’s been through incredibly difficult times, particularly 1994 and had some great moments as well. I think seeing him crying on the podium at Hockenheim after that amazing drive from the back of the grid is how we always love seeing Rubens and that’s how he genuinely is anyway. Obviously this year he hasn’t had a very competitive car but it would be great to have him around again next year. A few months ago I was in the gym and I bumped into Frank Bruno who was a boxer; he managed to fight Mike Tyson a few times and he’s been through quite a few things, and he has been very honest with me the last few times I’ve gone up there and he said that the biggest fight you will have in your career is when you just try to stop, and that’s how it is for all of us. The positive thing is - that’s how competitors are - there’s obviously some arrogance involved that we want to keep competing. But the hunger, desire, all that is still with Rubens so to answer your question, unlikely for me that I’m still here. I don’t know what I would need to be. I think I started two years after JB so ten or eleven years now, so for me to do another nine, I think I would look not very sexy at 45, so I think I will probably leave it at that.
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