Length: 4.381 km
Number of Laps: 70 (306.663 Km)
Best Lap: M. Schumacher - 1'19''071 (2004, Ferrari)
Record Pole: M. Schumacher - 1'19''146 (2004, Ferrari)
2005 Pole: M. Schumacher - 1'19''882 (Ferrari)
2005 Podium: K. Raikkonen - M. Schumacher - R. Schumacher

Q: Where do you think the Ferrari/Bridgestone package is next to McLaren/Michelin?
FM: I think it will be a very competitive race tomorrow. We are confident in our tyres, that they should work consistently as well so hopefully tomorrow we can attack and have a very strong race.

Q: And obviously your team mate Michael is now starting 12th; does that change in anyway your approach to the Grand Prix?
FM: I don’t think so. I just need to push as hard as I can to be in the best situation, the best position I can be.

PRESS CONFERENCE

Q: Felipe, I guess you perhaps thought of this as being your greatest opportunity, at least to be on pole position, perhaps to win as well.
FM: Yeah, sure, especially when you see that our car was very, very competitive in Q1 and Q2, in practice this morning and everything. For sure, I was expecting to be very strong in qualifying but in the first try I couldn’t set a reasonably good lap time and I was sure that I would be able to improve on the second try in Q3, but going out of the pits, I had Ralf going out as well.
I needed to almost stop the car in the pit lane in order not to get him on the track and the biggest problem is that we need to push hard on the out lap so I cooled down the tyres too much and I had a warm-up problem for the first two corners and for sure I lost very important time in these two corners which maybe could have been pole. Anyway, it’s good to be on the first row and hopefully we can have a very strong race tomorrow, maybe like last race.

Q: The margin was virtually a third of a second between yourself and Kimi. Could you have made that up, do you think?
FM: Yeah, I almost passed the first corner, so I lost a lot of time there.

Q: Do you feel the car is absolutely perfect or do you feel that you’ve lost a little bit of time over the last couple of day because of the conditions?
FM: I think the car is very good, the tyres were working very well. We were trying to improve the consistency and we’ve improved it already. Hopefully with the conditions of the track, after two GP2 races, it will be even better for us tomorrow.

Q: Yes, Rubens very kindly mentioned just now for you that second on the grid is the worst place to start, second on the grid.
RB: Second, fourth, sixth, eighth…
FM: I don’t think so. We proved in the last races that we’ve had a good start so it’s important to make a good start and try to make a good race, but I’ve started second twice and I made a good start, so hopefully I will do the same.