Q: We heard one radio transmission saying your race was with Massa. How did you feel at that point?
FA: I was surprised about that comment from the pits, so obviously they tried to motivate me. They tried to push me to the limits and they didn’t want me to relax at any part of the race. But I think Massa was a little bit too quick today and I was more concerned about the gap with Kimi and tried to keep the second place. The race victory, I knew that was impossible.

Q: Kimi, talk us through the race from your point of view.
Kimi RÄIKKÖNEN: I knew what I was supposed to do and it wasn’t the best race ever. The car was quite difficult, I don’t know why. The tyres felt quite tricky, especially the front tyres on the first set. The second set was a bit difficult at the beginning. It started to be a bit better in the end and I was catching up Fernando but then came the rain and I was right behind him and I got some instruction not to risk anything for Felipe and I decided to stay in third place. For us we won at least the team championship. It was unlucky for Felipe but that was one of our aims. I mean we got that at least and it was what we wanted and we could do it. It was not the easiest year for the team and for both of us but we got good results for the team and we must be happy. It was Stefano’s (Domenicali) first year as team boss and it has not been easy all the way through, so I am very happy for him.

Q: Felipe, reflect on the season in your own words given your emotions today?
FM: Well, I think as Kimi said, we did everything perfect today and unfortunately it was not enough. I think we did a great championship, we had some up and downs and we paid for that and we are also paying now a little bit but racing is like that. Sometimes you just have a perfect year with so many victories, a very reliable car, and sometimes you have some ups and downs and that’s racing. From one year to the other things change. That was our championship but even if we had some ups and downs I think everybody did a great job. Everybody worked really hard to achieve our goals with the heart and sometimes things don’t happen in the way we want. But that’s racing. That’s the sport, sometimes it is a little bit different than we expect. We need to be happy with our Constructors' championship. It is very important and I am sure our President, everybody inside the team is very, very proud and very happy like me as we need to be. The second thing is we need to congratulate Lewis because he did a great championship and he scored more points than us, so he deserves to be champion. I know how to lose and I know how to win and as I said before it is another day of my life from which I am going to learn a lot. Hopefully we come back here with the title but anyway I think it is part of our experience, part of our life. I am sure everybody here, me, Fernando, Kimi, knows how tough it is to be a driver. Sometimes things are very easy and something happens you don’t expect. Sometimes things are very difficult and you win without expecting, so we know a lot about that and that is another day. But as I said I am very happy and I am leaving the track with my head completely up as I think we did everything we could.

Q: What a rollercoaster of emotions you must have gone through. You’d done everything you had to do, what was happening on that last lap, even after you’d taken the chequered flag?
FM: I had completely mixed emotions because by the time I had crossed the line, I was still the champion and then suddenly my engineer was telling me everything on the radio and then he told me when I was already in turn three, he told me that Lewis had passed Glock. It was a completely mixed emotion because I was still waiting to hear the confirmation and then we didn’t have (what we wanted), we had the opposite of the confirmation. I’m still proud, I’m still happy. I think we did a great job today. It’s not every day you can win your home Grand Prix. It’s the second time that I won and I’m very proud of the job done today, of my team. We won the Constructors’ championship and for me that’s a big, big achievement. That’s racing. The race finished at the chequered flag, today was big proof of that. When you cannot win (the championship) and you win the race, it’s still a big show that you can be proud of. That’s why I’m very happy. I would have been much, much happier if it had been true when I crossed the line but God knows what to do and in life you always have explanations. So if these things happened today, it’s because it has to be like that. We need to learn from this and we need to grow because of this moment. That’s why I think we need to lift our heads and be very, very proud today when we leave the track. We’ve had some ups and downs but that’s racing. Sometimes we try to do everything perfectly and things go in the other direction. Some days things look very, very difficult but then you win the race and you don’t know why. That’s racing and we need to learn about that and it’s not the first time that these things have happened to me. I had a lot of experience in other categories, even positive experiences as well and today is another day and we need to learn. But I was really, really happy to see the support I had here today.