Q: That is an interesting name given the championship. Has it got anything to do with that?
RB: Not at all, no! We wanted a name that went along with Eduardo because it sounds a bit funny when you have something like Luca and Eduardo, Fernando looks just very similar. They look very similar in the same respect, so that is quite nice.

Q: We won’t be seeing him this weekend then?
RB: Definitely not.

Q: Eduardo?
RB: Maybe.

Q: Now, the identity of your team-mate for 2006 has been revealed, in that Jenson is staying at BAR. What are your feelings about that?
RB: I am very happy because I think now the team has a true chance of becoming world champions. Two drivers with the full potential of becoming world champion, the backing of Honda and BAR and everything, I think that it is good we have two drivers capable of winning. I am delighted. I was really hoping he could stay with the team so now he is going to have some hard work in November and December, when I am off, and then he his taking January off and I will be working.

Q: So you are having two months off, he is having one month off.
RB: I cannot drive for two months, obviously, and I will be just introducing myself to my son, so he doesn’t think of me as just a piece of paper. After three months he might recognise me, so it is going to be okay!

Q: (Dan Knutson- National Speed Sport News) Rubens, you have been on pole here, you’ve led here, you’ve never won here. Talk a little bit about what this race means to you, the highlights and the low points and how it’s your home race.
RB: This race at the beginning, back in 1993/1994 was easy-going because the hopes were with Ayrton the whole time, so it was quite a cool thing and it was nice just to be home and to have the same support as when I was racing the other side on the go-karts. 1995/1996 was quite different and I took all the pressure from the outside and that was quite difficult until I moved on and I started enjoying it again. Like football, when you play at home you play better and for me it is really nice. You don’t see the weekend going by; when you don’t feel the time going by it means that you’re enjoying yourself very much – that’s the feeling that I have - so obviously this is the first time since I’ve been driving with Ferrari that we come here not as the leaders, not dictating the pace and this is different. I’m taking the weekend to enjoy it. It’s going to be very very nice to have… Felipe has already been racing but Antonio as well because it’s a plus to the whole Brazilian effort. Actually I hope that we three – especially Antonio - are racing in Japan and China because it would be silly not to let him have a good chance at those tracks because he knows the car and everything already. So that’s it, I’m enjoying it. For me it is fantastic just to go back home after such a long day working and change the knickers of my son! It’s just fantastic.

Q: (ARD Radio Germany) Rubens, tell us a bit more about your home town, Sao Paulo? What does it mean to you?
RB: Sao Paulo has been my life. I’ve actually lived in Interlagos for 21 years so I was riding bicycles, my whole childhood was just around here, so I know people… sometimes when I look at the grandstand I actually know them (the people), and it’s a fun feeling. I don’t think Sao Paulo is any more dangerous than any other places that we go: in Italy… like London, sometimes, you are scared to go in certain places. So Sao Paulo is just a nice place. You need to know where to go but it’s my life, it’s where I want to live when I stop racing in Formula One.

Q: (Adrian Rodriguez Huber – Agencia Efe) For all three Brazilians: I think this could be the first time that the World Championship could be decided in Brazil; what are your feelings about that and what is your opinion about Fernando Alonso maybe winning here?
RB: In a way, I think it’s great for Brazil. If Fernando can win the championship it is a plus for the Brazilians. Because I think there’s no way that he’s not going to win the championship, he might as well win here in front of our public, give them their first feeling of what it is to win a championship – plus the party is going to be nice, we’re all going to be invited!

Q: (Marco Evangelisti – Corriere dello Sport) Rubens, I think you agreed that Ferrari is something that is slightly different all over the world. So I would like to know if it gives you any particular feeling to have your last race for Ferrari in front of your home crowd? And for example, to go to Shanghai where you won one of the most important races in history?
RB: Well, it is obviously. If you take it as the last time I am racing at home for Ferrari there is an emotion behind that but I don’t race for Ferrari because I like the red, I race there because I think the team was competitive and it was giving me the support to win races. In the same way that you are disappointed to leave your friends it is exciting to go to a new team. Friends are there for all time and I have friends from other teams, from Jordan, from Stewart so they will be there for all time. It doesn’t mean that I am closing the case and I won’t see them again. We had a fantastic relationship for six years with a car that we always dreamed to have. I think I have grown quite a lot inside the team. It is going to be really good to race here. It’s a pity that we don’t have the car as competitive as we would have liked it for me to win the last three races, but having said that, I got to the point that it is much more difficult to be on pole position for the last three races but it’s not impossible to win the race. So there are chances and I just take them, with the knowledge that I have in Brazil, with the last two pole positions that I had, with the public behind me, I’m going to give everything because for me it would mean a lot to win my home Grand Prix with Ferrari.