Question: A question to you all. What are your feelings about this circuit, about Singapore? Your feelings about racing at night?
Lewis Hamilton: It is a great track and a great show we put on last year and I am sure we can do the same this year.
Question: Lewis, you have been saying that you come here with quite a different attitude to how you came here last year when you were in championship contention.
Lewis Hamilton: I cannot really remember saying that. I arrive the same as always.
Question: The attitude was that you were slightly more cautious last year because you were in a championship battle.
Lewis Hamilton: Obviously yes, we just wanted to get points last year but nonetheless we went out there to win the race. We started off second, very competitive, but I think with the safety car I got a bit of traffic during one of my stints and wasn’t able to get much better than third. But nonetheless we are generally quite competitive on street circuits. This weekend we do have an upgrade package and it sounds like everyone else has as well, so perhaps we will just be in the same position, who knows. We will have to see if our upgrade package works as good as we hope. But in terms of the race we want to win but I want to finish the race this time, so that’s the plan.
Question: Tell us a bit more about the upgrade. Is it the last one of the year?
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, I mean there is not really much point developing this car. There is not much more we can get from it. There is no real benefit really. We have got four races left which, of course, we want to be at the front competing for wins and challenging the top teams but I think it is wise that we focus and make sure we can compete for the full season next year and give ourselves a fair chance to compete with the faster teams.
Question: So the focus is on next year already?
Lewis Hamilton: It will be after this and the next race for sure.
Question: Nelson Piquet crashed on purpose; do you think there is space for a driver like this in Formula One?
Lewis Hamilton: I think it’s a difficult one. Obviously, at least for myself, I can never see myself being in that position and I’m sure it’s the same for the rest of us drivers here. I think yesterday someone said that I said he would be back in Formula One very soon. All I can say is that I wish him well, I was just trying to be positive for him because I know how tough it can be in tough situations and I’m sure he and his family don’t feel so great right now, so all I can do is send some positive energy and hope the best for them.
Question: Lewis, your thoughts on potentially having Nico as a team-mate next year?
Lewis Hamilton: I don’t know what’s going to happen, but obviously we’ve got a great relationship. At the moment I’m very happy with how things are in the team but we have to see what happens.
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