Question: What does it mean to have your families with you? What do you draw from them?
Lewis Hamilton: I think as you can see I always have my family with me. I always have a part of my family with me and I know I have all my family’s support and that is what is important. I know they are proud of me and they have worked just as hard as I have to get me here today. So when I come here it is not about me, it is about us as a team together. They pretty much come to all the races, not so much the international races as it is lot of time for my brother off school. Without my family I would not be here today, so it is great we are able to share the experience throughout the season.
Question: How important is the Constructors’ championship to you? Is there a bit of a conflict of interest there?
Lewis Hamilton: Not really. It is quite simple really, we are here to win. We don’t have to win, so that is a pressure off our shoulders. We come here with a strong package and with a hope that we can challenge for a win and we will do the best job we can. We have not come here to finish further down the order but we obviously know that it is not do or die. It would be great for the team to win. I think the team deserve it as they have worked so hard. When you think about all the people that collectively made the two cars competitive throughout the season with a remarkable reliability. It is just down to the solid job and it would be great to give them the championship. We will do the best job we can and see what the result is.
Question: What do you think of this particular track and how is it for your car?
Lewis Hamilton: I love this track. It has always been one I’ve liked. I think I learnt it from a computer game years and years ago, me and my brother used to play it. Just watching it over the years it was always a spectacular race to watch whether it was raining or whether it was dry. When I came here last year and actually drove the circuit it feels like a real racing circuit. It is quite bumpy in some areas, it has got a nice combination of corners. It is not too long but it is not too short. It has a great long straight, so there are areas to overtake. It really has a lot of character. We don’t really see too many circuits like this which have so much character, so I like it.
Question: Lewis, I was just wondering how different your mindset is coming into this race compared to last year, on the back of the respective races in China – obviously when you came off the track and this year when you’ve won the race. Are you calmer, more confident?
Lewis Hamilton: I think it’s quite a bit different to last year, simply because last year we came here and I’d had one bad race, so it was all a bit hectic and the pressure of being at the last race etc. was upon me and perhaps it got to me. But this year I feel it’s just another race and we’ve come from a great race in China and I know here that we will be just as strong, if not a little bit stronger. It looks positive and again, my approach is the same as in the last race. We are just here to do the best job we can and we’re not looking at it and saying that we have to do anything again. We don’t really have much pressure on us, we just have to do a good job and regardless of whether we win, it’s not so important but as a team we would love to win, so we will do the best job, that’s what racing’s about.
Question: Some days ago, Eddie Jordan said you must be very careful here. He said that Massa touched you on purpose in Japan. Do you think it’s possible, are you prepared for it, will you try to avoid some strange situations on the track?
Lewis Hamilton: I don’t really read much what people say, so I don’t pay too much attention to it. We’re here to race, I believe every driver that’s here is a great sportsman and we’re all very competitive, so I just have to trust and believe in everybody and hope that we can have a fair, straight race. That’s what motor racing is all about and that’s why I race, that’s what makes it so exciting.
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