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Question: Mark, Red Bull looks good around here. Your thoughts on the race tomorrow and what you can do on this new track?
Mark Webber: Yeah, as Seb said it has been a good challenge for all of us, new venue. Tricky to work out the right strategy for qualifying. The tyres weren’t easy for one timed laps so we had to work out how we were going to do the strategy. Lots of teams tried different styles to get the best lap time out of the car. First sector it was tricky to get right on one time. I could have done better in the first sector on my only run basically and then I got yellow flags with Felipe (Massa), so I couldn’t do my second lap. But overall good job from the team. Came to a new venue but prepared well and have laid a good foundation for a good race tomorrow.
Question: Mark, you might have been starting third but you are starting second. I don’t know if there is a clean or a dirty side here yet?
Mark Webber: It doesn’t look like it, but we will find out tomorrow. It was an interesting session. Qualy around here was always going to be pretty interesting given what we saw in P3 and also yesterday with what we saw with the tyres and how they are behaving and how you prepare them and get them ready. We saw some different strategies, people looking to do a few laps, people electing to do one lap. First sector is very tricky when you do one timed so definitely left some change on the table there myself, but after that I was pretty happy with the lap. I haven’t seen Seb’s second lap as I didn’t get to do mine because of the yellow flag so pretty happy with the recovery from P2 when I was in a bit of strife really. Feel much, much happier with the car now and we have certainly done what we can to help it for the race so looking forward to it.
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Question: How much did you change as yesterday you said it didn’t seem to be so good yesterday?
Mark Webber: Yeah, quite a lot. We are also at a point in the season when you can also try and test a few things so we started off very well in P1, both of us obviously, and Seb had a pretty smooth P2. Mine was less smooth just for different reasons because we always try to improve the car and also try to gain some experience for future references so in the end we basically went back to a lot of the stuff. Like Lewis said the simulators are pretty good these days but you just don’t quite know how the grip level is going to go on the track, but it is not too bad and it is probably the smoothest track in the world actually. It is very, very smooth and it is pretty quick and exciting. I think the debris off-line will get worse during the race and in the quick chicanes we are going to have a lot of much when people are making some errors here and there so that’s going to happen. But, generally, it should be fine.
Question: Mark, it has been suggested that Red Bull might use team orders to give you a victory. Would you be satisfied if you were handed a win like that? And it has been suggested that Red Bull might change focus to ensure that you would win a race. What would be done differently from what has been done earlier this season?
Mark Webber: Nothing will be different. There’s been a lot of talk from the team but no talk from me. I don’t want any positions off Sebastian, for the remainder of the year. Nothing will change.
Question: Mark, Christian was speaking on Thursday about the desire within the team to get you second in the drivers’ championship. Does that actually mean anything to you? He said he wanted to make it the perfect season for Red Bull.
Mark Webber: I think wins are more important for me.
Question: Felipe broke his suspension by going too deep into a chicane, I think it’s eight and nine. Either into a hole or kerb -I don’t know. Is that a concern?
Mark Webber: Haven’t seen the incident. If he’s hit the kerb… I think Kamui hit it the other day with the middle of the chassis and he went into the air, so maybe it’s better to misjudge it a lot more than just misjudge it by not much. We know there are some high apex kerbs here, which are trying to keep us from doing exactly that, obviously cutting and making the radius nicer for ourselves. I haven’t seen the incident yet, but it looks like he’s had a failure off the back of the contact with that. Yeah, try and stay away from them, I suppose. That’s the best thing but it’s not always easy.
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