Q: Kimi, can I ask you about your experiences with KERS last weekend? Was it of use to you and how much did you use it?
Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN: I used it all the time if nothing is wrong with it. For us it has been better in testing, it was good there, so I don’t see any reason why we shouldn’t use it.

Q: And a two time winner here. This is obviously a good circuit for you?
KR: I like the circuit. Sometimes it can be a bit tricky. It is a nice place, quite a bit different from others. It is very humid here. When it rains, it rains heavily, so we will see how it is this weekend.

Q: Would you say you are more optimistic than you were in Australia?
KR: I mean the end result could have been pretty okay without my accident. Probably the speed is not where we want to be right now but this is a completely different place. It is more like a normal circuit compared to Australia, so we will see how we can do here but I still think that our car is not too bad, so we should be able to get good results once we get everything going well.

QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR

Q: (Will Buxton – Australasian Motor Sport News) A question to everyone on the subject of KERS. Do you see it more as an offensive or defensive button at the moment? Are you using it more to overtake people than stop people overtaking you? To the guys that don’t have KERS, are you finding it is being used to overtake you or stop you overtaking somebody?
KR: We use it for lap time. Of course it can help you overtake or defending your position at some places but it really depends what happens during the race where you are going to use it.

Q: (Juha Päätalo – Financial Times Germany) This one is for Kimi and Lewis: theoretically, the KERS should be an advantage at restarts but in Melbourne it didn’t seem to help at all. Do you think that was because of cool tyres and are you expecting a different picture at other races? 
KR: As I said, it depends on many different things, it’s not just that you get 80 horsepower and you are going to get around somebody or you can pass easily. It’s always if your car is good or it’s not good and if you get a good run on him, or he gets the jump on you at the restart. It’s just not pretty straightforward thinking. At the start, it definitely helps but at a restart it’s not so easy.

Q: (Will Buxton – Australasian Motor Sport News) One for everybody on tyres: how much is the wider gap affecting you guys in the race, how much is it going to change strategy over the coming races? 
KR: For sure it makes the race much more exciting when somebody has the harder and somebody the softer tyres, so it makes the lap time difference much bigger between the cars, so you can see some overtaking. It’s also a little bit tricky to get them working in the way you want sometimes. For us the soft tyre didn’t last very long, so we just came in and changed the tyres, it was a good move. Everybody needs to suffer on the worse tyre at some point in the race. For us, we decided to start with them.

Q: (Andrea Cremonesi – La Gazzetta dello Sport) And I would just like to know from all of you if only the weather can change the first two steps on the podium for Sunday? 
KR: It can change anything or everything if it rains like it was raining just now. We will see what happens.