Q: Lewis, you dominated yesterday morning. Not so quick yesterday afternoon because I think of a heavier fuel load. What sort of changes did you make overnight?
LH: I did not make any changes overnight. I was very happy and comfortable with the car that I had yesterday. In P2 we were obviously testing our long runs and we didn’t drop our fuel load down at all at the end of P2. Therefore P11 we were quite happy with that and I was comfortable there. It is not qualifying, so I guess it is important that we tested the car and made sure we were 100 per cent happy with the tyres and the fuel load.

Q: So are you feeling pretty confident for tomorrow?
LH: As confident as you can ever be. I think we are on pole position. We feel comfortable with the performance of the car but clearly we understand that other cars around us are very quick. Adrian and Kimi, even Heikki (Kovalainen) back there. It seems to be very close. I don’t know what to expect tomorrow. We don’t know what the weather is going to do. All I can hope for is a good clean start and hopefully deal with it from then on. But hopefully we are in a strong position.

Q: What sort of effect has KERS had during qualifying and what do you expect during the race, particularly at the start, of course?
LH: It is pretty much the same from qualifying to the race. A little bit more of a gain in qualifying, but I think it makes up for the loss of downforce and perhaps drag that we have compared to others. Adrian is quicker than us down the main straight even though we have KERS boosting us all the way down, so we kind of make up for some of the bits that aren’t so great on the car and we are still working to improve the rest of those.

Q: I think you have mentioned about a four-tenths gain. Would that still be about right?
LH: That is what they say but I am sure if we took it off we are probably gaining in other areas and could perhaps do the same time. It is obviously more beneficial for the race when you are competing with people. You are then able to get the tow, even though it is such a long straight, I was able to slipstream quite a number of drivers not last year but the year before. But KERS should help us big time, but hopefully I will not need to do that. We will see.

Q: Can you remember the last time the two of you were on the front row?
LH: Me and Adrian? Formula One at Zandvoort. Probably. I think that is when we finished our title charge together. That was a great era for us. We had great fun then in the same team and congratulations to Adrian. He has done a great job and truly deserves to be up there with us and finally able to show what he is capable of doing.

Q: Adrian, well done. Just one run in Q3. What was that like?
AS: It was nice to be in the car in the whole session. At the Nürburgring it was the first time for me in Q3 and I knew how it felt. It is a very difficult one because the first session is always tricky. The grip level is low, so you have a little bit more oversteering in the car and it is more difficult to drive and then it just gets better and better during the next session. That is what happened here as well. I had a difficult first session really but made it through and then the second session was much better and then finally the last one was the best one. As soon as the grip level was there again on the circuit the car felt really good.

Q: What are your feelings about having the KERS cars behind you at the start?
AS: Yes, it is not the best feeling really as I know they have a big advantage, especially at the start. We saw it last weekend with what happened to my team-mate. He lost the race just because of the KERS button. It is tricky but that is the situation. Maybe we are a little bit better in the corners because we have no KERS and they have more power. In the end it is equal but it is really hard to get the positions back, so it is going to be a hard fight for my position at the start, that’s for sure.

Q: Tell us about your satisfaction getting this front row of the grid?
AS: Yes, huge satisfaction. I was waiting for this chance for quite a long time. I would never have thought that we would be able to be on the front row this year, and especially as three or four races ago we were fighting to reach the second qualifying. So suddenly the step has been so big with our last update package and it’s working really well, so we are heading in the right direction, I think. I’m ready for it and now it feels really, really good.

Q: Kimi, tenth and eighth yesterday; you said there was room to improve. What changes did you make overnight?
KR: We made some changes to try to improve the issues that we had but even when yesterday I wasn’t a hundred percent happy, it was still pretty fast. I think it’s been a positive surprise how good the car has been all weekend. Today it was even better with high fuel.

Q: In comparison to Spa when you won but started further back, are you confident for tomorrow?
KR: Yeah, but OK, we are three places ahead of where we started in Spa, but now there is a McLaren with KERS in front of us. At the start, you cannot expect to jump them. We can jump the Force India but probably not the McLaren. So that’s a different story and then we see how the race goes. It’s definitely easier to overtake here than in Spa, so if they have the speed on the straight line, as it looks it will be difficult to keep people behind, it will be difficult to pass them. We will see what we can do.

Q: We’ve seen a lot of drivers weaving on the back straight; how much of an issue have tyre temperatures been here during qualifying and the race itself?
KR: For us it hasn’t been a big issue. It’s more or less the same as at any other circuit but maybe the first lap isn’t always the easiest one, not the fastest one. It takes a few laps but I think it’s the same for everybody. Some teams can use them on the first lap, straight away, very easily and some not. But they may pay the price later on in the race, the tyres would maybe not last, so it’s a bit of a difficult situation.