Q: Is he showing any signs of slowing down in his old age?

JB: No, he has been on it this year. He has been doing a very good job. It is good to have a competitive teammate and a very experienced teammate as he is. We have got a very good team and a very good team atmosphere and he is good to have alongside.

Q: You have hard tires here and last year it was 120 degrees on the asphalt, now we maybe have 60-something. Do you think it will be a problem to get the hard tires up to temperature?

JB: I think it’s going to be very different, for sure, but in the winter we do a lot of testing in colder temperatures and we are able to get tire temperature, but it’s just going to be very different to what we’re used to here. The tires are obviously going to work in a very different way and over the next two days, that’s what we’re going to be working on and working with. The information from last year will also be useful but it’s going to be very different to what we’ll experience this year, for sure, both tires (compounds), not just one tire.

Q: It is said that Honda didn’t want the Super Aguri team any longer. What can you say about that, and how bad is it for Formula 1 to lose a team during the season?

JB: Personally, I think you need to speak to Oshima-san or Nick Fry, who will be here over the weekend. They will be able to give you a much better answer than I can. But obviously for the drivers, for Takuma and Anthony, I’m very sorry for them, because I’m sure it’s very difficult doing the first few races and then not having a job racing in F1 from then on, so really just sorry to those guys and hopefully they can get back into Formula 1 in the future.

Q: Would you guys feel happier if you had a safety barrier which didn’t have bits and pieces flying off; that there was just foam behind a wall, as is being used in America?

JB: I think the angles at which we hit the wall are far greater than what they do in America, on the ovals. I think if any of us had hit a Safer Barrier, it wouldn’t have been that safe – at the speed and the angle at which we would have hit it. What do you think, Heikki?

Heikki Kovalainen: Yeah, I agree with that answer exactly. I think we probably should look more individually at the most dangerous corners. We can see ourselves which are the most critical places and probably make decisions accordingly, and it’s not that straightforward, just adding some kind of wall here and everywhere. It’s not that simple. For myself, at Turn Nine in Barcelona, it worked very well this time and we’ve just got to see if we can do anything better and look at other corners as well.