Q: Michael, you had a certain hand in this circuit. How much did you change, how did it come about?
MS: I think you have to put it right. At certain stages they do come and ask whether there are any sorts of problems or advice on how to create overtaking opportunities and that is the area I looked into. I guess I wasn't the only driver to do so. The input was to take care of some of the run-off areas and to create a slowish corner into a long straight into a slowish corner, which we have with the final corner to the first corner, to allow us to have overtaking possibilities.

Q: And do you think there are quite a few overtaking opportunities here?
MS: I am not sure there is a lot. There is probably specifically this one and there might be another one up to turn four although that is a bit more tricky because of being off line but over the weekend that may create itself into an opportunity.

Q: From an outside point of view it doesn't look very exciting but it is obviously very challenging. Can you tell us about that?
MS: For us we are sitting very low and very often the camera never transmits the speed we are doing but for us you do feel it quite a bit. There are two interesting chicanes - well, high speed corners - where you don't actually see where you are going, there are some corners which you brake into that are very tricky, very easy to make mistakes. It is exciting for us because where we sit is obviously much lower.

Q: Is that something you will be asking for?
MS: Yep

Q: Will you personally?
MS: Well, it's done already, I mean. It is more of an issue when you see what happened. It doesn't need to be requested I believe.

Q: Some of the other drivers are talking about the dust on the outside of the track. When you get off the track completely there are huge plumes of dust coming up. If that comes onto the track it can be slippery. Does something need to be done about that?
MS: I haven't seen a car that has a brush on the front of it to push the dust onto the circuit! I don't worry too much about that.

Q: Does the dust actually affect the handling of the car? Do you pick it up on the tyres?
MS: I think you are mixing up things. I mean, as we were talking before, it sprays the dust up big time if you go off really out in the run-off areas but if you just go off line, yeah, there is a bit of sand, there are a few stones like we have in other circuits, it is a little bit more, because of the circumstance and the first-time usage. There are these two levels, but neither will cause an issue and anyway there is nothing we can do about it. Just keep cleaning, they have the right equipment to do so, and then we have to see how it develops.