Question: Lewis, you pushed out the Ferrari right at the end, it’s the best qualifying of the season so far for McLaren, but you don’t need to be reminded there is almost a second between you and Mark and that’s quite a bit to make up, isn’t it?
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah it is. I don’t think anyone expected them to be so fast this weekend. However, we knew that they would be quick but that is quite a decent gap, but we will continue to push and just focus on the areas that we know where we are weakest and try and close the gap. But it’s great to be up there. At least we can fight. They’re probably not as quick as us down the straight which is a bonus, so we will see how the start goes tomorrow.
Question: Lewis, best of the non Red Bulls but that margin of 0.7 of-a-second is massive, isn’t it?
Lewis Hamilton: What can I say. I think they are extremely quick throughout the high speed circuits and throughout the high speed corners they seem to be ridiculously fast and maybe have more downforce and efficiency than other teams. They have obviously made a slight step on top of that which is putting them a little bit further in the lead. It is great to see us up there, best of the rest. It is kind of a good foundation, a good position, for us to work on. We have got a lot of work to do but I think this car has got a lot of potential. We are just going to continue working on it. There is many different avenues we can go down to gain some good downforce but I think so far we have done a great job and the stuff that has come this weekend has been a step forward. We just have to keep pushing them for more.
Question: And a bit of a threat also from Ferrari here as well?
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, undoubtedly we expected to be threatened by Ferrari and Mercedes, so that is not a surprise for me. They always kind of not do so much through practice and then all of a sudden in qualifying be very quick. I guess they are working on their race pace. We know they have got a good car. They have just got a special switch. They do something with their hand and they are benefitting a bit from that.
Question: Lewis, you are almost one second slower and considering the history of this grand prix where the pole position has won since 2001 is it realistic for you to believe you can beat them?
Lewis Hamilton: I believe anything is possible. If you look at the last few races they just show that a lot goes on in the race. Our race pace is perhaps quite a bit better than our qualifying pace but they are very, very fast and they obviously have quite a bit gap on us. Generally the guy that starts at the front has maximum downforce, clean air, so is able to just control the race from there. There is a chance at the beginning of the race. There is a chance when and if the weather hits us, so we have to remain optimistic and keep pushing. Ideally we just want to finish as high as possible and score as many points as we can whilst they are having their good days and hopefully we will have better days than them at some stage.
Question: Lewis, it looks that on the harder compound the advantage is only maybe half of what it was on the softer one. Is there an explanation to that?
Lewis Hamilton: You probably have to ask them. For us we seem to be competitive and the car seems similar on both sets of tyres. I think for them they seem to be able to pull out a chunk of time from the softer tyre. I don’t really have an answer for it.
Question: Lewis, do you think the domination of the Red Bulls is explainable by Barcelona or do you think it is Europe time and now they are going to be ahead of you?
Lewis Hamilton:I think generally, looking at the next few races, we go through different circuits with different downforce levels. I have no doubt they are going to be extremely competitive through Monaco, but Montreal I am hoping we will be a little bit closer to them. But the circuits where we have the high downforce like we have here, they generally have quite a good edge on the rest of the field. But hopefully when we get to the other circuits with a little bit less downforce we will be able to benefit the same as the other people with good straight line speed and hopefully we will be a little bit closer.
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