Length: 5.451 km
Number of Laps: 56 (305.066 Km)
Best Lap: M. Schumacher - 1'32''238 (2004, Ferrari)
Record Pole: R. Barrichello - 1'34''012 (2004, Ferrari)
2006 Pole: F. Alonso - 1'44''360 (Renault)
2006 Podium: M. Schumacher - F. Alonso - G. Fisichella

Q: And the championship, your feelings about that?
KR: For sure it’s not a good position where we are, but we still try to win races and see what happens. It’s not really up to us any more, even if we win both races it’s probably not going to happen for us but it’s the only thing we can do, try to win and see where we end up.

Q: What are your feelings about the possibility of rain on Sunday – again?
KR: It’s the same for all the teams and drivers, so I don’t mind really. I think it was quite an exciting race last time in the rain, so for sure it makes it a bit livelier if it’s raining.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Paolo Ianieri – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Question to Kimi: how do you explain the many mistakes that Ferrari has been doing in the last race?
KR: I don’t think that we made so many mistakes. We had a misunderstanding with the stewards or the FIA or whatever you call it and that’s only what really hurt us. That’s the only… I don’t know why you say we made so many mistakes.

Q: Kimi, I’m from China, so can you tell me what the important thing for an F1 racer is?
KR: To have good results, a good team. It’s pretty normal for us to always try our best and I’m not sure what’s most important but I think it’s probably having a good team behind you and a good environment in which to race.

Q: (Paolo Ianieri – La Gazzetta dello Sport) And the other question is for Kimi. The tyre selection was starting the race on the intermediate in Japan. Do you take the responsibility or was it a common team decision?
KR: It doesn’t matter whose it was, we took the decision as a team. We spoke with Bridgestone, we didn’t expect any more rain and we took the intermediate and for sure we didn’t take them because it was against the rules – at that point we didn’t know that. I guess before you ask me why we stopped so many times, why does it make any difference when we are last and second last behind the Safety Car. As long as we got more fuel in the car and didn’t lose any places it was good, so it wasn’t any mistake because we didn’t lose any places.

Q: (Marco Evangelisti – Corriere dello Sport) For Kimi. You left McLaren and now they are going to win the championship. Any regrets?
KR: No.