Question: This circuit has been quite good for you. You have had a front row start and a couple of third places here. How good is the car going to be and how optimistic are you about the car as you have tested it on a couple of circuits and it’s been very competitive there. It was very competitive in Australia. Is it going to be a car that is good everywhere?
Jenson Button: You have got to hope so. In winter testing we were strong on two different circuits, strong in Melbourne, and you would expect us to be competitive here. Nobody knows yet how competitive compared to the rest of the field. But I enjoy this circuit. I really do. It is a very fast flowing circuit and I think it will suit our car pretty well. There are some very low speed corners which I think will suit us. Also, mechanically our car is strong. I am looking forward to getting out on the circuit tomorrow. Weather-wise it is going to be a lot trickier this weekend than in Melbourne. We had a few safety cars thrown into the mix to make it exciting but here with the weather it is going to bedifficult to know what is going to happen over the race weekend.
Question: How do you feel to have the best car?
Jenson Button: It is a new feeling and it feels great. I think a few of us have sat here and been in competitive cars in the past. It is obviously a good feeling. The strange thing is after the winter we had and the last couple of years you do the first race and you win it and it is obviously exciting and quite emotional but you get over that pretty quick and you are on to the next race. You get used to being at the front very quickly, I suppose it is because it’s what we have all done in the categories leading up to Formula One.
Question: You’ve been distracted by the weather. You go into this race favourite to win back-to-back victories. Are you worried that the forecast wet weather and diminishing light with the late staging of the race could undermine your performance this weekend? We know that Rubens is super-strong in the wet. Can you explain a little bit about your approach to driving in the wet?
Jenson Button: Well, I’ve actually done OK driving in the wet myself, so I’m not too worried about that. The last two years we’ve come to circuits hoping for rain because it throws a bit of excitement into the race for us because we would normally be hanging around at the back but here, when you’ve got a quick car you obviously want it to be dry and you don’t want any safety cars, you don’t even want a breath of wind. So for sure, I would rather it was just dry this weekend but looking at the weather forecast it’s going to be storms in the afternoons and obviously it’s a five o’ clock race. It makes it more difficult and a bit more challenging for sure but we’ll take it in our stride hopefully and hopefully have a good car in the wet. We haven’t tested in the wet yet with our car but it’s a good car and we’ve just got to hope it works in the wet. The only thing we’ve got to work out is the front wing angles and what-have-you because previous cars we’ve had we’ve had to adjust massively for the wet conditions, so hopefully we’re going to have some wet running before the race.
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