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Question: Mark, you are alongside Sebastian on the front row as it was last year and you were the only one of the leading contenders to improve on your final run. So was it the perfect lap from you?
Mark Webber: It was pretty good to be honest. As Seb touched on you have got so many corners you would like to put all of them together perfectly from all of your runs I suppose. But that’s not the case. You have got to try and do your best to put them together when it counts. I hadn’t had the smoothest build up into Q3 so the guys did a good job to recover with me. I knew there was some more to come on the last lap, I just had to put it all together. Still not easy. Still it was a pretty good lap and it was good to go a little bit quicker in the last sector to put that one together. Seb was a bit stronger in the first two but in the end great day for the team off the back of all the talk. Nice to come here today and do well. Of course, no points today so looking forward to tomorrow’s race and go from there.
Question: Mark, your third time on the front row this year. Can you be fighting for the lead tomorrow?
Mark Webber: Absolutely. It is going to be a long race for all of us. Not too clear on how we are going to go with the race strategically so I am in the second best place to start the race. It’s been a tight qualy, wasn’t the best build-up through Q3 for me. I was a little bit out of bed. The boys did a good job recovering. It looks like we had a bit of a brake balance issue so we have recovered from that and then in the end did a very good job with getting back onto the front row ahead of our main rivals.
Question: Will brakes be an issue during the race tomorrow?
Mark Webber: Brakes? No, touch wood. It should be fine.
Question: And that final corner. So many people seemed to make mistakes there. What is it about it?
Mark Webber: Yeah, it is a very challenging corner actually. One of the most challenging on the calendar for us although it is just a tight second gear left hand hairpin, or first, depending on what your ratios are. But the entry speed is very high. You have a kink beforehand but you know the entry and exit are both very important so you see people having a lot of problems getting into there. It is quite easy to misjudge the breaking point. I was very, very lucky on my last lap and got it right so that helped me get the front row but it is easy to run out of talent and not look too good there. But got through there today just.
Question: Mark, isn’t the situation getting a little bit annoying for other drivers to be always fighting for second place ?
Mark Webber: I think that it’s what it’s about in Formula One, isn’t it? Seb’s done a good job on Saturdays for the last few years. Obviously, it was closer between him and I on Saturday (last year). This year he’s on a phenomenal run, he enjoys this car and tyres and is doing a very good job. That’s how it is.
Question: Your teams haven’t tested the new regulations on the track. Tomorrow, you will use the same engine map that you used today. Do you think it can change anything in the result of the race; are you worried about that?
Mark Webber: Well, first of all I think some teams tested it a little bit in P1, the Silverstone regulation, and I don’t expect there to be a huge, huge difference tomorrow, from what we’ve done today, in terms of the difference between Saturday and Sunday for us. We’ve seen in the past that sometimes the results can be different and I think that could happen tomorrow, but it won’t be down to… if Lewis wins by 50 seconds it’s not down to the exhausts regs or the fact that he can’t change the differential by a bee’s dick. It’s going to be down to a result that probably would have happened anyway.
Question: Mark, you picked up the speed on your very last run. Was it just a brake balance problem before which hampered you?
Mark Webber: I probably said that we changed the car quite a bit with what we can change, within qualifying: obviously front wing, brake balance and a few things like that. I wasn’t happy with the car at all in Q1. We were in big trouble but we got on top of this, so thank God we managed to recover very, very well and put the car right towards the front, because after Q1 I was thinking that it might be a different day tomorrow. It was most of the reason why.
Question: One may have thought that the FIA’s decision on mapping of engines was a decision taken against Red Bull to prevent you taking a huge lead in the championship. Is there a small feeling of revenge right now that you once again took the first and second places on the grid?
Mark Webber: I think we’ve said it enough, mate. We came here and we didn’t expect any difference. You guys wrote a lot about it, some other teams spoke a lot about it. Maybe some people in our team spoke a bit that maybe technically were not completely on top of things, but in the end we’ve just got on with our job basically and we knew that it would be… if we got done here, it would be fair and square, not because of that. It was just a fair battle going into today and the results are a fair reflection of what happened today.
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