Length: 5.338 km
Number of Laps: 58 (309.356 Km)
Best Lap: JP. Montoya - 1'24''770 (2005, Mclaren)
Record Pole: K. Raikkonen - 1'26''797 (2005, Mclaren)
2006 Pole: F. Massa - 1'26'507 (Ferrari)
2006 Podium: F. Massa - F. Alonso - M. Schumacher

Q: Eleventh fastest lap in Hungary, but I think the team thinks that this is a circuit that’s much more suited to the car…
FM (to NH) : You must be happy because I wasn’t in front of you.

Q: But does this circuit suit the Ferrari better than in Hungary?
FM: Yeah, not just the circuit but also the luck, on Saturday. But anyway, I think Hungary was a disaster for me, a disastrous result. We knew, starting from the back, it could have been very very difficult to do something but it was frustrating. Even I expected to do something better but it was a very difficult track for overtaking, starting very heavy, so I didn’t have a single opportunity. It was very frustrating to be the whole race behind slower cars, knowing that the pace of the car was not what I was showing. But here, it’s a very good track, I think our car must be very competitive and I’m really looking to having a great qualifying, a great race and I think we can do that.

Q: And it’s vital, surely, to stay in the hunt for the World Championship.
FM: Yeah, for sure. I would never put my head down. I always keep it up and fight until the last moment.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Adrian Rodriguez Huber – Agencia Efe) Question for Felipe; we saw you playing football yesterday with other drivers, one of them Fernando. Is everything now straightened up between you guys?
FM: Yeah, I just asked him… because he wanted to play at the front and then afterwards he said ‘I’ll play in the middle’, so I said ‘I just like to play in the middle if you give me the ball.’ But he gave me the ball, we had a great match. I don’t have any kind of problems (with him). Sometimes we might have a problem in the race but things change for the other races and since qualifying. So I don’t have any problems. We play football and we had a lot of fun, so that’s the way it works.

Q: (Victor Serra – Tele 5) Felipe, do you think that the problems between the McLaren drivers will help the Ferrari drivers fight for the World Championship?
FM: I hope so. But I don’t know. Actually we don’t know exactly what’s happened. We know that there’s a big competition between the McLaren drivers but there’s also a big competition between every driver. We know also that sometimes people talk too much, sometimes people write too much and we don’t know exactly what’s going on. So I think if you look from the first race until now we didn’t see really a big big problem, looking at the championship, because of them, of the fight from the McLaren drivers so it’s very difficult to say that.

Q: (Niki Takeda – Formula PA) Question for Felipe; why do you have a new chassis here? Was there something amiss with the previous chassis or what?
FM: No, no. It’s very normal to change chassis during the season. Every season I did in Formula One I changed the chassis maybe one or two times, so it’s nothing different, just a normal plan.

Q: (Michael Schmidt – Auto Motor und Sport) Felipe, when you compare yourself with Kimi, do you see a pattern on which type or layout of circuit he has the upper hand or you have the upper hand?
FM: I think on some circuits I was maybe a little bit quicker, some circuits he was a bit quicker, so on some circuits I was not very lucky, on some circuits he was not very lucky but the competition is very high.

Q: (Dan Knutson – National Speed Sport News) Guys, can you tell me, was there any time in your racing career – not just F1 – where a team-mate did something that got you so mad that you said ‘I’m going to get some revenge on him.’
FM: Normal fights, normal situations, nothing really which remains like a crazy thing, just normal situations.

Q: (Andrea Cremonesi – La Gazzetta dello Sport) Felipe, could you clarify how is the relationship with Fernando now?
FM: Normal. Normal. Well, the problem I had everybody saw, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t talk to him any more. Normal things happen, it can happen with anybody here and I don’t have problems on my heart that I will never talk to a guy. It’s pretty normal, no problem.

Q: (Peter Windsor – Speed) Question to all four guys: I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but I don’t think either of the McLaren drivers are here today and they are not coming today, and I just wondered if you could each tell us whether Thursday is a part of a Grand Prix weekend that you enjoy, that you always have enjoyed throughout your careers, as part of motor sport. You meet the mechanics, you do all that stuff, or whether, if you could have your meetings now with your engineers downtown you would be happy not to be here on a Thursday and just get in the car on Friday morning?
FM: For me, I remember when I was in the other categories. We used to arrive two days before without testing, just staying there, looking at the track, doing nothing. Here we do, here we have meetings, we talk about the car, we’re talking about many things and for me it’s pretty OK, I have no problem. It’s much more important now compared to some years ago when I remember it was a whole day long at the track doing nothing, so here at least you have some things to do, not just here, talking to you guys, but also with the engineers and everything, preparing things for tomorrow.