Question: Sebastian, the first time you got into the RB6, it literally rained on your parade. Did the wet conditions let you draw any conclusions about the car?
Sebastian Vettel: First of all, it’s good to be back in the car again after three long months. It was a long winter! The car felt alright immediately, even though the weather was far from ideal for testing a new car. But we all know that such conditions can occur over a race weekend, so it’s always good to have data to hark back to. Overall I would say that we can be very satisfied about how things developed. We were able to put in quite a lot of mileage, even if we had a problem on day four, which kept me in the pits for quite a while just when it started to get dry. But I would say it’s better to face problems at test session than at races.
Question: Have you been happy with the car’s balance?
Sebastian Vettel: It was okay. As I said, after three months it was my first run and we knew it would start raining early, so we didn’t mess around with checking the car too long. We went straight out on to the circuit to do some laps. It was a cold start for me but it’s good to know you are still able to do it. I felt pretty happy in the car. Obviously over the last three days we didn’t have a lot of time to really set up the car. It was more like shaking down the car. The weather was too changeable, so we did a little bit of work, which went in the right direction, but there’s a lot more to come and I expect everyone to improve from where they are now - so we will see. At the moment it’s pretty close. It looks promising and interesting.
Question: Have you been surprised by any of the cars?
Sebastian Vettel: There is not just one surprise; I think the biggest surprise is when you look at everyone. If you look at the cars they are not just different colours but also different shapes, with a different philosophy behind their design. They are all more or less close together, within a couple of tenths, so ourselves, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes I think are pretty close. But the Toro Rosso looks quite strong as well. If you read into the lap times a bit, it is fairly close. There are a lot of things still to happen before Bahrain, and a lot of new parts coming for us, and of course for the other teams as well. But so far it looks very close.
Question: There’s been a lot of talk in the media about a burgeoning ‘fight of the generations’, between the youngsters and the old champion, Michael Schumacher. Do you realize that?
Sebastian Vettel: We are in Spain and here the people are writing more about (Fernando) Alonso and I do not notice too much what is going on in Germany. Probably that is not such a bad thing.
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