Q: A tense and breathtaking qualifying session, and you are on pole, but
what happened to you in that incident at Rascasse?
Michael Schumacher: I locked up the front and went wide. I wasn’t sure what
was going on after this because of the positioning of the cars and so on, so I
was not aware and in the end, I checked with the guys what the situation was,
where did we end up, because I didn’t expect to be sitting here right now in
this position and they said P1, so I was glad considering what had happened.
Q: Brilliant show of speed today as the track has picked up grip.
MS: We didn’t look very good on Thursday. It was a little bit down to the
tyre choice. We changed our choice and that put us back on the road and yes,
today, this morning, we seemed to be back on pace and we had very good long runs
and so on, so I’m pretty happy.
Q: It was always going to be very congested in those first two qualifying
sessions; you waited until you went out and on both occasions it worked well for
you.
MS: Yeah. It’s difficult to find the perfect slot, but I saw so many cars
going out very early and it was natural to find traffic in these moments so I
just timed it slightly different. When I saw the red flag I thought maybe I
didn’t make the right choice but it came together and the second qualifying
session worked out fine. I just conserved and made sure we were within the top
ten, and then I gave it everything thereafter.
Q: Talk us through your emotions; you don’t seem too happy about it. Do you
think things could have been handled any differently?
FA: Well, I don’t know. I do my maximum in the car, today it was OK, the
car was performing really well. I think I had a good strategy and fantastic
tyres for the race, so we have to wait and see tomorrow, but after dominating
all weekend, to lose the lap because of an accident is not really a good
moment.
Q: On Thursday it looked very much a Michelin day but today Ferrari and
Bridgestone have come right back into it.
FA: Yeah, not only Ferrari but we see the Williams here and Toyota was not
too bad here today so I think both tyres are quite competitive, on the same
level, and I’m very optimistic for the race. I think we have something more in
the race, probably in our tyres, so hopefully we can do a good race with no more
accidents.
Q: Michael, different overalls here, perhaps lucky overalls, first time on
the pole since 2000.
MS: Yeah, well, history is really not important. You have to live in the
present and the new overalls was a very nice design by Philip Morris. We had
this idea in Madonna di Campiglio already and we both liked the idea and thought
Monte Carlo is a special occasion where we could put some colour into it and we
were happy to use it. So let’s see and hope it can be lucky tomorrow, that’s
more important.
问:迈克尔,在这里不同的赛车服,也许是幸运的赛车服,自2000年后首次拿到杆位。
迈克尔-舒马赫:是,历史并不是真的重要。你必须活在现在,全新的赛车服是菲利普-莫瑞斯非常出色的设计。我们在Madonna di
Campiglio有了这个想法,双方都很喜欢,认为蒙特卡罗是一个特殊的地方,我们可以在这里给比赛增添一些颜色。使用它们我们非常高兴,所以让我们看看,希望明天会是幸运的。这更加重要。
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Q: Michael, just talk us through that incident again if you would?
MS: I think you had best watch the pictures. You will see me locking up and
just running out of road.
问:迈克尔,如果可以,再跟我们谈谈事故。
迈克尔-舒马赫:我想你最好看录像,你会看到我锁住了轮胎,跑出了赛道。
Q: And then did you stall?
MS: Not initially. Initially I tried to get reverse but it was hesitating
to move and then finally I stalled.
问:之后你停转了?
迈克尔:最初不是。最初我尝试着退回来,但动的时候犹豫了,在那时最后停转了。
Q: In comparison to Thursday, a complete change in performance. You
mentioned a change of tyres; was it just that?
MS: No, it was obviously not just that, probably it was also the track
coming to us plus making some changes to the car. Maybe there were some other
reasons in terms of how we approached the weekend, slightly differently to the
other guys which showed us not as strong as we could have been. The other point
is that a lot of people used new tyres on Thursday and we didn’t.