Q: (Adam Hay-Nicholls – Metro) Fernando, you said earlier that you and Renault have been pushing all year and will continue to push next year. Can we take from that that you are going to stay at Renault next year?
FA: No, I didn’t say that. No, I just want to say thanks to the team because, as I said, they keep working with this car. We had a new front wing here, at this race, and if you think how the championship is, and that they are already working on next year’s car. They didn’t forget the performance of this year. They brought a new front wing with four races to go. This victory is also thanks to the massive effort they are making with this year’s car and next year’s car but it’s not changing the decision for next year. As I’ve always said, Renault will be my first priority because I feel I’m at home in this team.

Q: (Ed Gorman – The Times) Lewis, did you hear any concern from the McLaren pit wall about the amount of time it took for the stewards to announce first of all that they were investigating Nico’s pit stop and then how long it took for the penalty to be announced?
LH: I have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. I was driving my race, I don’t know what happened. I have absolutely no idea what happened to Nico, so I really can’t comment on it.

Q: (Fréderic Ferret – L’Equipe) Fernando, when you pit early, did you think it was already over or were you still hoping for something to happen during the race?
FA: No, when I pit, obviously I was last behind the Force India cars, I was still looking in the sky for some drops of rain or something because I was last. Obviously I had pitted already, so I would overtake some people when they did their pit stop but our main target in the race was P12 or P11 and maybe a little bit better with some rain. The race changed completely after the safety cars and you then never know because it was the same thing when I was leading. I was leading comfortably because we had already one safety car at that point, maybe I would be P5 or P6 because there were people who had stopped already, fuelled to the end, like the Ferraris, so it was a worry, all through the race.

Q: (Fréderic Ferret – L’Equipe) Nico, what is it like to be leading a race in Formula One?
NR: Yeah, it’s a very, very nice view, to have P1 on the pit board. I was just pushing as hard as I could, I had nobody behind me. I was thinking this is looking great and just pushing as hard as I could because I knew that I had to stop, I was going to get a stop-and-go, so I had to try and get the gap as big as possible.

Q: (Mark Fogarty – Auto Action) Lewis, what’s your feeling now in these last few races in the championship? Can you take Felipe on head-to-head, is it going to be a straight fight or do you have some concerns about his speed if he doesn’t strike trouble?
LH: No, as I said, we’re going to approach the next few races exactly the same as we have this one. I have no doubts we have a competitive package to compete with them but without a doubt it will be a very tough battle.

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