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Question: Mark, talk us through the thinking about that from the team side. You want to save a set of tyres but you must have been quite tempted to go out and do another run?
Mark Webber: Yeah, particularly for me it was a little bit more interesting. I would have liked to have a couple more tenths to have the margin. Obviously Seb did a good lap for pole but my lap wasn’t too bad. We spoke about it before qualifying that tomorrow is going to be a pretty long race and every lap you can try and get back today might help you tomorrow. Turns out we were in the best grid positions we could get. Obviously other way round here and there but generally the team did a great job so now we are in the best shape we can be in terms of grid positions and in terms of tyres. You cannot get through with any less tyres than that unless you are running scrubbed tyres all day but you are not going to qualify anywhere, so good decision from the team. A little bit of luck, of course, but in the end I was happy with today. Seb did a good lap and I am looking forward to tomorrow’s race.
Question: Mark, well done, second on the grid, was it a coincidence or team plan that you both decided to go out early in Q3?
Mark Webber: Yeah, we spoke about it before the session. As Seb said, it’s nice to do it earlier than later. I think even Nico ran once, a few teams ran once in Q3. It just depends where you put it. Obviously if you make a mistake, late, you can’t go again. If you make a mistake earlier then you can maybe go again, so maybe other teams will look at this strategy in the future. Who knows? It’s not rocket science. There are enough clever people up and down the pit lane to have a look at it. We know it’s going to be a tough grand prix so everyone’s… so it’s a long race, we’ll do our best, see what happens with the tyres and go from there.
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Question: A little bit of a gap between the two of you; can you explain that?
Mark Webber: Seb did a great job today. We know he’s running good pace on Saturday afternoons, so he’s done a good job. Yes, I would have liked to have been a bit closer but we know these cars are very complex and you need everything right to get the laps done so in the end I was happy with what I did, the team did a great job and it’s the ultimate result for the team. It would be nice to get pole but we’re on the front row. Seb did a good job, deserved pole and here we go, see how we go tomorrow. It’s the first lock-out we’ve had of the front row so we’ll try and have a smooth day tomorrow and that will be nice.
Question: You talked yesterday about turn eight being challenging with these new regs. Tell us about what sort of challenges you face?
Mark Webber: Ah, just said the tyres get destroyed through there; there’s a few corners on the track where the tyres are having a hard time and that’s normal, so it will probably be evident in the grand prix, how many stops we make, certainly more than two and less than six. Yeah, we’ll have a few pit stops, I’m sure.
Question: Everybody is thinking now that you are on the first row and last year we saw some funny things between you; could you give us your thoughts now about tomorrow?
Mark Webber: I think last year when I was in this room there was a different atmosphere, for sure. It wasn’t the ideal race. There was a bit of momentum coming into that grand prix, obviously, a few different stories here and there so in the end there was contact, we had a crash. This happens in motor racing, very rarely between team-mates but it happened. I think it’s a bit more straightforward these days. The racing is still intensive but the DRS and things like that make it a bit less intense in some ways. You can only do so much. I think we both learned a lot from last year, not just in that situation but in some other situations. At certain stages tomorrow, of course, if we’re racing each other and we don’t know, sitting here, how the race is going to unfold but there might be times when we’re close to each other, and of course, we’re not going to repeat what we did last year. Wisdom helps you, DRS also, and things like that. It’s changed the racing a little bit, to be honest.
Question: Mark, you’re four tenths behind Sebastian on your best lap, so was it a good lap?
Mark Webber: Perfect. Couldn’t go any quicker.
Question: So what can you do to beat Sebastian in qualifying ?
Mark Webber: I think they took me seriously. The Germans did especially. I think Seb’s done a great job, he does a good lap in qualifying, most of the time, we’re seeing in Q3 that he’s done some phenomenal laps over the years and the bar is very high, clearly. Yes, maybe he didn’t do a perfect lap. All of us can find a bit of time here and there but the race is tomorrow.
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