Q: To all of you, there have been some proposals made to bring forward the first qualifying by an hour in a new timetable. Do you support the proposal that has been made by the commercial rights holder and do you think it goes far enough?
JT: I mean, again, you know, it is very often an overreaction. It was the first time we had this kind of qualifying with two laps one behind the other and probably it may become a different schedule and I think if it happened it is a reasonable step forward but I don't think we should try to modify everything from one day to another after only one race.

Q: Jean, we were talking at the end of Melbourne about the track temperature on Friday, which was the hottest day there. Can you compare track temperatures with here, when it was 52 or 53 today?
JT: It is nothing to compare. Here it is much higher temperatures, we have completely different tyres from what we had in Melbourne so things are different. We know that when temperatures are so high it is not going in our favour even if we made some good steps forward.

Q: So, you are still worried about the temperature here?
JT: I am more or less worried about everything - temperature, reliability, everything that can happen. I don't think we should focus on temperature.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Joe Saward) To go back to the qualifying thing, it is a bit confusing - nobody is telling us how that decision was made. It was a wrong decision, everyone seems to agree with that. Can you explain how it came about?
JT: I mean, you know, I don't really think we can answer this question. At the end of every season we have an F1 commission and we have an agenda and simply in the agenda was a review of the qualifying procedure. That was part of the proposals that were done and it was a proposal that was voted for. We just re-scheduled the weekend, we came back to what was in the past with the two-hour free practice on Friday between 11 and 12 and 2 and 3 and as in the past last year we had two laps, one qualifying lap to determine the order of Saturday qualifying and it was decided to put those two laps one behind the other to give the public more to see because we understood (they were) complaining about not having enough to see on Saturday and then it was giving more visibility to teams who need to give more visibility to their sponsors. It seems (that) to have one hour 40m was too long and we may have that split in two parts, one at 1:45 or something like that and then between 2 and 3 the second part of qualifying. I don't think it was a revolution and I don't think we are preparing any kind of revolution.

Q: (Joe Saward) If you had no political issues involved here, each one of you, what would you have for qualifying? Jean?
JT: Maybe simply it was better as it was in the past, where we had 12 laps, but there they were complaining that for half an hour nothing was happening and now it will make this thing more difficult because we start the race with the fuel during qualifying so it would make the things probably more difficult now, but why we went to this kind of qualifying was because people were complaining about those 12 laps and not enough for the first part of qualifying.

JT: And may I add something. It was acting after the 2002 season, where everybody was complaining about the domination of Ferrari. Everyone thought by having one single lap would make this thing more unpredictable and it is more unpredictable. But now it is more unpredictable and people are not happy - so let's make it more predictable.

Q: (Joe Saward): The three top team bosses up there - sorry Tony, nothing personal - would you guys be willing to accept less testing if you got more running at Grand Prix weekends. Rather than going to shorter Grands Prix, having more running on Fridays, would you accept less testing away from the races?
JT: You know, as long as there will be more than one tyre company, it's very difficult to limit testing the way it is at the moment. If you take Ferrari, we are the only top team with Bridgestone, which puts us in a situation to do a lot of tyre testing, probably much more than the other competitors. So I think that as long as Formula One is the way it is with tyre companies and all that, it's very difficult to change things.

Q: (Joe Saward): Budget-capping, everyone's favourite subject at the moment. Jean, how do you feel about having a budget cap?
JT: Having what?

Q: (Joe Saward): Having somebody saying how much you are allowed to spend? A budget cap.
JT: Since I've been in motor racing we have always had a budget and a budget to respect

Q: (Joe Saward): Perhaps you don't know about it but there was a suggestion from Richard Parry-Jones of Ford that in order to cut costs in Formula One, you would have teams having budgets limited by strange men with suits and clipboards. What do you think of that idea?
JT: Let me not comment on it. It's not realistic.

Q: (Gaetan Vigneron - RTBF): Jean, most of the team improved their time during their second free practice today. It wasn't the case of Ferrari. Is there a reason for this?
JT: We just had different programmes from the morning and the afternoon.