Length:4.309 km
Number of Laps:71 (305.909 Km)
Best Lap: M. Schumacher - 1'14''755 (2000, Ferrari)
Record Pole: J. Montoya - 1'13''114 (2002, Williams)
2002 Pole: J. Montoya - 1'13''114 (Williams)
2002 Podium: M. Schumacher - R. Schumacher - D. Coulthard

Q. First of all gentlemen a quick question about driver aids. The decision about driver aids such as launch control, traction control, etc, the ban has been put back to the end of the year. What are your feelings about that?
Michael Schumacher: Great.

Q. You weren't looking forward to the ban anyway were you?
MS: Yeah.

Q. But Michael, I'm sure you don't want to get to that position again so what can be done to avert that situation in the future?
Michael Schumacher: Maybe have a second rain tyre.

Q. And are the team principals sympathetic to that viewpoint?
MS: I hope so….From our side yes. I guess after the experience, whoever maybe voted to have only one tyre maybe sees the complication of it and has a different opinion now.

Q. You went out fairly early in the session. What were the conditions like in fact at the start of the session?
MS: I think they were varying a little bit. I'm not sure whether I'm right to say I maybe had the worst rain around but there were drier and a little bit worse periods. It was still acceptable to run, I mean it was far better than what we saw this morning at the end of the session for example.

Q. You had a spin during the session, what was all that about? Just finding the limit?
MS: No not too much, it was just aquaplaning - off you go.

Q. So there was quite a lot of water about?
MS: I think there were two issues. First of all there was water, probably enough to make me spin, and also this commercial break we didn't mean there was a car in front of me to put a dry line, so everything was completely wet which made it an extra bit difficult.

Q. Michael what about the new Ferrari? There were rumours there was going to one at Imola or both at Imola. Do you know what the situation is?
MS: I guess we will try to have two ready or even three

Q. How badly do you need that car?
MS: Having a new car you would love to run it because knowing it is faster you would love to have it. But I think we still have a car, the 2002 car, which is still able to win races. Fast in Australia, probably not in Malaysia but we will see.

Questions from the floor

Q: What would be the best course of action to take on Sunday if we have the same conditions as we had today, given the fact that Formula One will be under the spotlight?
MS: Yeah, basically you will see what has happened in Magny Cours some years ago when we had these conditions, and even then we had rain tyres. When the conditions are too bad, you simply put it out and you go, whether it's at the beginning, the middle or at the end, it depends whenever it's necessary and in some conditions the safety car even has to slow down for us to be able to follow it.

Q: In those conditions, how much of a difference is there between the old wet tyres you would have had and the tyre that you've got here this weekend; just give us an idea of the scale of the difference?
MS: I think in the very bad conditions that we saw this morning, not even a wet tyre would have helped us honestly.

Q: If there isn't a clear situation on Sunday, with perhaps a safety car situation, do you think it's fair to leave the decision of the race in the hands of the stewards? You are taking the risks, but you don't seem to have the power to decide what should be done?
MS: As long as the other people do consider the opinion of us, which does happen, as later on we have the drivers' briefing when we will discuss with the stewards and the people responsible what are our feelings. In the past, they have always considered this and it has improved the situation a lot compared with years ago, maybe.

Q: After two races, can you give us some ideal how your individual teams' technical approach has changed to the weekend?
MS: It does change because you basically have to decide everything on Saturday, what is optimum set-up for yourself for the qualifying condition and have a reasonable race pace, and the set-up is a very complicated thing, mechanical set-up at least. Electronics are still free to be changed but that is quite substantial so you need to put in a lot more effort with your engineer to do it in the time that you're allowed to work in and that's very short, the time that you have available. Basically, after qualifying, that's it and it's a day less than you had in the past.

Q: The team owners are meeting next week to review the rule changes. If there was just one rule you could change, which rule would it be?
MS: Basically to have more time to work on the car, that would include having the possibility to work on the car after qualifying for the race and maximising your opportunity to both of the circumstances, because both have been a big challenge in the past and now it's less of a challenge, in all honesty.

Q: Michael, do you have the feeling that you're losing a big part of the fun of your sport during a weekend?
MS: No, I wouldn't say that the fun is suffering in an extreme way. I did prefer the work with the engineers and changing little things on the cars. I'm not talking about qualifying engines and things like this. I think it's easy to stop that, but springs, dampers, bars and wing settings, just to maximise, just to optimise everything. That's missing now, but on the other hand it's the same for everyone and it's still fun to do what we are doing.