Question: Sebastien, two good results in the last two races. What are your feelings about those results? Is this the start and can you repeat them?
Sebastien Bourdais: For sure we hope to carry the momentum, that’s the goal. Valencia was nothing special for me, just the team did a great job and the car was very competitive. But we didn’t really fix the issues that I had been facing in previous races. Then we arrived in Spa and obviously I felt really good straight away. We had just had a few handling problems here and there but nothing fundamental. We found some solutions for this and in qualifying it was really strong. And in the race we looked set for fifth place which was quite unreal to be honest. When Claudio (Valestri, his race engineer) told me ‘you are racing Kimi coming out of the pits’ I was thinking ‘what the hell is he saying, this doesn’t sound right.’ But it was just a great race and I can only hope that it had been 43 laps, not 44. That is pretty much the end of it.
Question: Do you feel you are getting on top of it now and the results can be repeated?
Sebastien Bourdais: It is tough to say. Obviously I felt really good on that track in Spa, it is a track which I always liked and it flows nicely. You don’t have many entries with a lot of brakes in the corners, so that suited my style very well and it was not really showing the problems I had been facing with the R3. Obviously we came here and tested and I wasn’t very comfortable but we will see if we can use some of the knowledge that we took from Spa and try and build from there and see what can happen.
Question: What is your future with the team?
Sebastien Bourdais: That’s the question. All I can say is that right now it seems to be going fairly well. I will just try to keep the momentum going. It is not my decision obviously. If I could say what I wanted to do it is quite clear I would like to stay with Toro Rosso and use the work we have put together this year to try and build something strong for next year. I keep on doing the best I can and we will see if it is good enough. Obviously it is Gerhard (Berger, team co-owner), Franz (Tost, team principal) and Dietrich’s (Mateschitz, co-owner) decision, so we will see.
Question: What you think about that incident and Kimi, and as a follow-up, do you think you and other drivers might be afraid to fight for a position now that you might get a penalty?
Sebastien Bourdais: Yes, I think the rules are very clear. Maybe the penalty was a bit hard, but I think he’s made the same mistake twice: he’s done it in Magny-Cours and he’s done it again in Spa. I don’t really understand why there’s been such a mess around it. There’s a rule book and everybody has to obey the same thing. The penalty is really rough but in the end it’s up to you to give the position back or not. Pretty straightforward.
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