Q: One qualifying session before the race to go tomorrow, of course, but can you just give us your thoughts on the race tomorrow? Can you do it?
MS: I think we will be there. It is going to be tight and tough but I think we have an opportunity.

PRESS CONFERENCE

Q: Michael, do you think it affected you, would you have preferred warmer or cooler?
MS: Put it this way, I would have preferred to try at the end, yes!

Q: So you don’t think it made all that much difference?
MS: How can we judge? It’s difficult to say.

Q: One of the problems with Ferrari and Bridgestone has been the first lap performance, that one lap performance. Has that been cured, do you feel?
MS: It has been improved but not cured.

Q: Ross Brawn said yesterday that there was no quick fix and yet here you are up in third place; it seems to have come good pretty quickly.
MS: Yeh, but in Bahrain we were second in first qualifying, so I think the car is simply very good. We have obviously had a problem with the tyres not being consistent enough for the whole race. I think we’ve done good work on that so we’re probably in good shape.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Dusko Dragic - Ekipa) This circuit is one of the greatest in the calendar but its infrastructure is very bad. Fans, on some parts of the circuit, can easily climb over the walls and fences. Do you have any security worries at this circuit?
MS: Honestly, we have to have this kind of circuit. They have so much tradition. If we only raced on new built-up circuits, we would miss out very quickly on traditional places. Whenever everything is perfect, it’s not perfect either honestly. This has so much charm and I’m pleased for the reasons of the circuit and the environment. On the other hand I am also an ambassador of San Marino so there are plenty of reasons why I’m pretty happy and I have no safety concerns at all.