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"Thursday Four" Press Conference
Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Marc Gene and Pedro de la Rosa
Q. In the European Champions League football game last night,
Manchester 
United beat Bayern Munich by a score of 2--1 at the Camp Nou Stadium
in 
Barcelona. Manchester United scored both of its goals in the last two 
minutes of the game. Did you watch the game and what did you think of
it?
MH: It was for me the first time to really experience a big football
game 
like that. It was extremely good fun to see all the fans and how
excited 
they were, and how surprisingly well they were behaving--after all the
stories I have seen and heard of before. Obviously I drive for an
English 
team, and our engine comes from Germany. I wasn't exactly sure whom I 
should support! But I enjoyed it. It was a fantastic game.
MS: I wasn't there. I watched it on the TV. I saw the second half
because I 
came back from Fiorano. It was obviously a disaster. I expected the
(score 
to be) 1--1. But with the 2--1, that was a bit too much to be honest.
It 
would of been nice to go into the next stage and see who would do it
then 
... because all the Germans did then was defend, and they should have 
concentrated on pushing, and then it would not have happened. But that
is 
football.
PDLR: Yes, I went to the game. It was very good.
MG: Luckily I watched the last 10 minutes. It was a shame. I have no 
predilection for either team--I'm not really a big soccer fan--but I 
usually like the team to win that is doing the best. From what I heard
from 
the commentators, they were saying that Bayern really deserved to win.
And 
in 80 seconds it changed. It was quite incredible.
Q. Marc and Pedro, you are local drivers. How far do you live from the
track?
MG: Ten minutes. It's a 10 kilometer drive from here, so you cannot be
more 
local than I am.
PDLR: Eleven minutes. It's true! I can hear the cars from my house.
Q. Mika, do you feel more confident on this kind of circuit than
Monaco?
MH: I don't know yet. We have done plenty of testing this year in 
Barcelona, and we have been able to get a reasonably quite good
balance to 
the car. Yes, I can say I'm quite confident here, but then again, we
will 
see on Sunday what happens.
Q. Mika, what was the suspension problem at Monaco?
MH: The car was extremely difficult to drive in the race, and to find
the 
car on the limit, and to keep the car on the limit in Monaco is
extremely 
difficult. The level of difficulties that I had in the car was so
high, 
every lap was too much on the limit, and I could have basically hit
the 
barrier on every corner. The team hasn't found anything wrong in the 
car--it was just too difficult to drive.
Q. After your very fast second run, you changed the rear wing. Was
that 
another gamble?
MS: We tried, yes. We wanted to see how the car was with a different
wing 
setting. We still have to make our choices for the race.
Q. Michael, it was said that Ferrari would have new parts on the car
here 
that would help straight line speed. Is that happening?
MS: We were planning to have a different engine, but we are not ready
to 
use it. It was the plan to have some new (chassis) parts, but we are
not 
ready with these things yet.
Q. What are your feelings about this race and this track?
MS: As I expected, Monaco was a good circuit for Ferrari and this is 
probably the worst circuit for us in our current situation. It will be
a 
difficult weekend but, as I usually say, not an impossible weekend. We
will 
work and we have some ideas on how to improve compared to the last
test. 
And we will find out whether we succeed or not.
Q. Why is this particular circuit so much worse than others for you?
MS: In general it is 180 degrees different compared to Monaco. Monaco
is 
very slow speed and a little bit bumpy. Here you have a very flat
circuit, 
and probably less grip from the tarmac itself. You have high
temperature, 
much faster corners and much faster speed, so it's completely
different. 
Therefore, we may have bigger problems. What the reason is for that, I
can't precisely tell you. It's probably a bit of everything. We may
suffer 
on mechanical grip, aerodynamic grip, and a little bit on engine power
in 
comparison. Little steps in each area make a certain gap.
Q. Michael, you say that this is the worst track of the year for you.
Does 
that make you despondent when you have this challenge here?
MS: Yes and no. Yes because we have to face a race where we may not be
as 
competitive as in Monaco. It is something that you don't like but you
have 
to accept. We can accept it because we have a lead in the points. If
it is 
only this race, then it is not going to be a big problem. We have a
big 
development going on in our car which shows promising results, but we
don't 
have it for here. But it will improve this situation if we hit it
again 
during the season, and there will be circuits coming that have a
similar 
nature to this one. I believe that we will be prepared for that time,
but 
we are not prepared now.
Q. If you were close to McLaren here, or even beat them, that would be
a 
hammer blow to them because McLaren would expect to have a big
advantage 
here.
MS: It depends on the circumstances. If you have a perfectly clear 
situation, and it would be like this, I would first of all be
surprised and 
pleased. And maybe McLaren wouldn't! Let's see what happens on
Saturday and 
Sunday. Then we will make a judgement.
Q. Mika, would it be a hammer blow if you did not win here?
MH: No, I don't think it would be a disaster. But it would be very
close to 
disaster! But it would not be a disaster. We will have to see what
happens 
on Saturday and Sunday. It's impossible to look back on test results
100 
percent and make a judgement out of that how competitive we are and
how 
competitive the other teams are. If you are talking about the feeling
of 
the car, yes it feels good on the track. It feels quick. Is that
enough? 
That's difficult to say.
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NADA PODE FARME EVACUAR COMO ER GUTTALAX (Merlo)
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"Thursday Four" Press Conference
Merlo, ma almeno formattarlo decentemente.. imparare ad usare i
programmi.. non ti parrebbe ora??
Obelix

 PDLR: Eleven minutes. It's true! I can hear the cars from my house.
Ecco perchè a Barcellona Pedro ha fatto vedere di che pasta è fatto,c 
onosce quel circuito come le sue tasche! Un ottimo decimo posto per lui 
anche se sappiamo tutti che può fare di meglio (vedi Melbuorne...)
Grazie Merlo di aver riportato anche le parole di Pedro ma mi sembra che 
si sia dato troppo spazio ad Hakkinen e Schumacher e non mi pare 
giusto...
-- 
Adios
Raffa
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Pedro De La Rosa World Champion 1999
Venceràs por tuyo pueblo
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mettetli  sulla stessa macchina e poi vediamo chi la spunta!
Seee, stai fresca, gia' fanno fatica a starci in uno su una Monoposto,
figurati in due...
Obelix