Question: Lots of things have been said about team-mates and the relationship between team-mates. How good is your relationship? Could it be better, could it be worse?
Mark Webber: I think the press are bored. There is nothing else to talk about, so they want to talk about team-mates. That seems to have been the topic for the last 10 days or whatever.
Question: You seem to have chipped in as well though?
Mark Webber: Well, the press continually ask and try to put some fireworks on these two. My opinion was exactly as it was. It is not the easiest to have a warm, fuzzy relationship as we are all competitors but we don’t hate each other’s guts. It’s the way it’s always been at the front in Formula One, in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and it will continue in the future. It is certainly not rocket science.
Question: And the relationship with your team-mate?
Mark Webber: Sensational, amazing.
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Question: We have heard this before.
Mark Webber: Yeah, it’s a broken record.
Question: What are your feelings about the new circuit?
Mark Webber: I think when they designed it they weren’t really planning probably to have a Formula One race here, so they were looking very aggressively towards making it more towards the bikes. I think then it was a bonus they got the cars back which we are all very happy about. The work the BRDC, Damon, everyone has done I must say it’s incredible how they kept their heels in the ground and kept the event here which is great for all of us. Back to the track itself they kept all the good stuff, the sections of the circuit that the drivers like I believe. It would still be nice if we had Bridge in there and some of the other corners were nice, but you can’t have everything when you have certainly a world class category in Moto GP here. They have made an adjustment and I think it is still good for both of us. I don’t think there will be any more overtaking than it was in the past. It was always a difficult track to overtake on and I think that will still be the case but that’s the same for most circuits around the world. So overall positive. A huge amount of effort has gone in and that needs to be applauded and hopefully we can have a good race this weekend.
Question: You have got a new chassis here. Tell us about that. Also, you were quite emotional and sentimental about the old one as it has been good to you.
Mark Webber: The new chassis, a different chassis obviously, it is the only car we have that we can use, so we have to take that one which is no problem at all. It will be fine. The other car had a few pole positions, a couple of victories with it, Monaco and a few things, so it would have been nice not to finish its life like that. But it is going to be rebuilt and it will be back again shortly.
Question: Is that going to be yours in the future?
MW: I think it will be a spare car.
Question: Mark, the images of your accident were quite impressive, mainly one, when everything looks blue on TV, the blue of the sky. You were taking off. When you saw the image of the accident, what did you think and if, tomorrow when you are behind another car it will come to your mind?
Mark Webber: It’s definitely an unusual situation for a single-seater to go into the sky like that. For sure I was concerned what might happen. It’s a freakish crash and I was a bit worried about some of the bridges. I didn’t know if there were any bridges there. I had pretty much an idea that there weren’t - I was just making sure there were none of those but I couldn’t do anything about it anyway. I had the crash before here, I’ve come back from other crashes, all of us have had crashes. Fernando had a pretty good one in Brazil one year and this happens. We have mechanical failures, we have other crashes which are ones that we don’t want to have, but it’s part of the business and part of our profession. I’m not worried at all about my ability behind the wheel, going forward.
Question: How important it is this weekend to do well, ahead of the second half of the season as we’re at the halfway point and you’ve all had different experiences so far?
Mark Webber: We know it’s changing event by event. The new points’ system is pretty interesting in that sense. Fernando had a few problems with the safety car in the last race, Lewis had a drive-through, still got second. Jenson didn’t qualify well, had a good race. I crashed, Seb had a perfect weekend, and it’s up and down like this until the end of the year. We know whoever has the best weekends consistently, all the way to Abu Dhabi, is going to be the guy who will be in the best shape. There’s going to be some more tears before the year’s out in terms of some reliability, some mistakes, some pit stops, that’s Grand Prix racing, and that’s why we’re all here and that’s why we all watch it, so looking forward to it. There are some great opportunities in the future, clearly, for all of us to do well.
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