Length: 4.411 km
Number of Laps: 70 (308.586Km)
Best Lap: M. Schumacher- 1'15''377 (2004, Ferrari)
Record Pole: F. Alonso - 1'13''698 (2004, Renault)
2006 Pole: M. Schumacher - 1'15''493 (Ferrari)
2006 Podium: M. Schumacher - F. Alonso - F. Massa

Q: It’s nearly half season now; is this where you would expect to be or are you a little bit disappointed, frustrated?
KR: For sure we don’t expect to be in this position but that’s racing and I think we just try to improve, try to get things how we like and try to start winning races and that’s our main goal.

Q: Does it make a difference now that we are away from Monaco, the two overseas races, back in Europe?
KR: I hope so, I hope it makes a difference to the results but as I said, testing is always one thing but the racing is completely different. We will see tomorrow how the car is to know whether we can. But hopefully we can challenge the McLarens.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Ian Parkes – The Press Association) Kimi, Luca di Montezemolo said in Gazzetta dello Sport last week that we hadn’t seen the real you yet this season, a driver that puts fear into other drivers. Do you feel we’ve not seen the real you and if so why not?
KR: Like I’ve said before, I think I expect better results but there are certain things that haven’t been right and we try to improve those and then hopefully at some point we will get it right and we can get the results that we want and I can drive how I want. This seems to take a bit of a longer time.

Q: (Paolo Ianieri – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Kimi, we know that testing is one thing and racing is another, but do you thing that the hard times for Ferrari are over and that here you will be able to fight closer for victory?
KR: As I said, we don’t know because you can always see the results from testing but you don’t know what the other teams are doing. I think we have improved the car, for sure. The car felt very good at Silverstone but this a different circuit, a different place. We need to wait until the race, until the qualifying to see how it goes, but we have a positive feeling about it.

Q: (Paolo Ianieri – La Gazzetta dello Sport) There were also some rumours about you, Kimi, about Michael Schumacher coming back, in your place or you swapping places with Fernando. What do you say about those things? Do they disturb you or you just don’t care?
KR: I haven’t read any magazines for a long time, so I don’t know anything about it, but I don’t care really what they talk about. I think I’m in a pretty safe place.

Q: (Thierry Wilmotte – Le Soir) For all of you: it seems this will be the last time here in Magny-Cours. Do you think it will be a loss for Formula One?
KR: Like they said, the circuit is nice to drive, but I think that more for the people it is a bit difficult here. There is nothing really around the circuit, so I think it depends where we go – if it is nice or not, the new place. But I don’t think it is going to be missed too much.

Q: (Paolo Ianieri – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Kimi, one thing that you still seem to be struggling with are the starts. Do you feel that you still have problems or is it one of those things that happens by chance?
KR: No, I think it just happens by accident. The last two races I know the start has been bad, but it is not something that I can really change. There is no grip off the line and it is the system that really makes the start after you let go off the clutch, but that was just a bad thing. We had different tyres to the rest last race, but I think we will improve the starts as we have a new part for the clutch so we should be better.

Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de Sao Paulo) Kimi, at the last three circuits we did not have any medium or high-speed curves, which is not the case at this race or at Silverstone. Can this mean it will help Ferrari?
KR: I think so, we have different speed corners in every race, but maybe the circuit itself was not ideal for us. I hope it is different here, but like I said, in testing we did a good time, but testing is different to racing. We expect to be stronger, but I don’t know how much so we’ll have to wait to the race to see.

Q: (Andrea Cremonesi – La Gazzetta dello Sport) For Kimi and Felipe, the weather is not good, it is quite cold. What do you think this means for the tyres?
KR: Who is first – me or Felipe? (laughter). I don’t know how the weather is going to be. Today, it looks like it is not so nice, but I just arrived here and I don’t know what they expect for the weekend, but in the end it is the same for everybody. Everybody has the same tyres. Hope it is good weather because that is nicer, but if it is mixed it makes the race more interesting.