Question: Your feelings about the track, safety and any overtaking places?
Fernando Alonso: Well, the track I think is good. Obviously the first day is difficult for everybody to get the braking points especially as it is very hard on brakes. You need to find the braking points as soon as you can and then there are some parts that are very similar. I think going into turn 12 and going to turn 17, the two longest straights, are very similar, so one time I thought I was in turn 17 and I was in turn 12 and I missed the apex and vice-versa. This was P1. In P2 I learned the track a little bit more. It is not easy, quite challenging and also the last sector is quite nice to drive and you need to really concentrate to get the maximum there. We can say that it is not a normal street circuit, it is a little bit more than a street circuit.
Question: Fernando, good times today. Do you feel you are still climbing up the field this year?
Fernando Alonso: Absolutely. I think we started the season not in a perfect way. The first three races I think we were just in Q3, P9 or P10 in Q2. Then in Barcelona we made a step and then we kept improving the car race after race. We are in a position always now to be in the top six in qualifying and always in the points in races. This is something that at the beginning of the season was impossible for us. For sure we are improving, we are climbing and this weekend maybe we will see another step forward hopefully.
Question: What parts of the circuit do you like best and what parts are the most challenging for you?
Fernando Alonso: I like the last sector. I think turn 19, turn 20 and the last corner, as Robert said, braking with some lateral G, is always exciting and you move a little bit in the seat and the cockpit and it is a feeling that maybe you don’t have in any other place.
Question: Are you proud of this second Grand Prix in Spain?
Fernando Alonso: Of course I’m very proud and now with a second race, it’s something that I was not expecting three or four years ago, for sure. We cannot forget that in 2003, when I started winning races with Renault and being on the podium, national TV was not broadcasting the races live. Now, in 2008, we have fans at tests over the winter and we have full grandstands at the two Spanish Grands Prix and two races here in Spain, so there has been a big change in Spain and all the Spanish people about Formula One. I am in the middle of everything, so I am very happy.
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