Q: And therefore a hard race for you mentally and physically I guess, in traffic and racing hard to the podium.
RB: Yeah, absolutely. With twenty laps to go, I put something in my neck just to try to hold it but it was actually doing something bad to the muscles so it was very bad. I guess everyone had a problem with their neck but I just had to let it go because it was very very difficult and I think the whole week, all the stress and everything, I feel very tired. I want to thank the whole team and all the public that came here to see me, I guess. If we deserved to win the race, we would win it but it was a difficult situation today. I’m happy that we finished on the podium, but the race is still there to be won.

Q: Rubens, well at least you have got rid of the jinx haven’t you…and yet you fifth in the opening stint and here you are on the podium.
RB: I guess it worked OK. Obviously it is disappointing I have not won the race because we dominated the whole weekend in terms of pace and everything and I had quite, maybe not more than Kimi, but quite an amount of fuel in qualifying. Everything went fantastically well. But if we had any weak points it is when it is damp. If it is wet we are the best, if it is dry we are the best. In these conditions we do have to improve a bit, but that is how the race was. It was drizzling and then drying out and drizzling again and just took off all the rubber off the track. It was difficult.

Q: And yet you were leading after five laps by two seconds and then by lap eight you back in fifth, sixth place…
RB: As I said the conditions were quite difficult. It was the same thing as in Monza. In Monza it dried out a very fast and it went into our hands. Like I said I couldn’t have done anything better. I feel very proud of myself and the whole team for what we have done. I was knackered on the podium because of the stress of the whole weekend and the neck because it was really hard for neck. I had to sit down for a little bit. Then they knocked me off with the champagne. But I can go out of here with my head pointing high. I think it has been a good season. I wish I could have won the race that is all.

QUESTIONS FROM FLOOR

Q: (Livio Oricchio – O Estado de S. Paulo) Your pace after the first pit-stop was much slower compared to the other times. Can you explain that?
RB: I don’t think to have the good pace from the damp situation. We are good on the dry and good on the wet but we seem to struggle on the damp and that is it. If you look, everyone who had a Michelin seemed to have the pace and we took some time before we were going fast.

Q: (Eggers Moraes – Agora Sao Paulo) Rubens, why did you last so long to do the first pit-stop?
JPM: Hello, anybody home.
RB: It is the same answer again.
JPM: He can’t put the slick tyres as early as the Michelin. The Michelin works better in damp conditions and they can get away longer.
RB: Next time I will answer in Portuguese.