FM: No, by radio. You can see the people (in the grandstands) are very happy, already, if you win the race, and if you win the championship even more. But they were very happy, the people on the side of the track and I was not sure but by radio I was informed about everything, every metre.

Q: (Rodrigo Franca – VIP Magazine) Felipe, talking about the information on the radio, when was the first time your engineer said you would be champion if the race…
FM: He never said that, he never said that because I think Hamilton was not far away from Glock, so when I crossed the line, Rob (Smedley – race engineer) was telling me ‘calm down, calm down because now I need to check Lewis.’ And then I was going into turn one, it was taking forever to know the result and then when I got to turn two, it was still ‘wait a second because he’s fighting with Glock.’ And then when I was getting to turn three, he said ‘OK, he passed Glock, so… well done anyway, you did a good job’ and so on and so on…

Q: (Rodrigo Franca – VIP Magazine) So no information about Lewis during the race?
FM: During the race? Yes, but he was fourth, he was fifth, he was fourth, he didn’t explain to me everything during the race, just maybe after five or six laps he was telling me where Lewis was but by that time I was looking after my own race. The big information was when the rain came at the end which mixed up the result a little bit.

Q: (Heikki Kulta – Turun Sanomat) Kimi, you just lost your championship title to Hamilton. How do you feel about that?
KR: You can always lose some points. OK, I lost it this year, so well done to him, he deserves it in the end. He got the most points from this year, so I don’t feel bad. Of course, my season was not what I wanted in the end but that’s racing. Sometimes you have bad moments during the season and it cost too many points for me this year but I will try to come back next year and it’s a completely different story again. I won it once and for sure I want to win it more times but this year didn’t happen and we will come back stronger next year and try to get it back.

Q: (Alessandro Locetti – Diario de Sao Paulo) Massa, what can you say to the people who didn’t believe that you could do better than Räikkönen and that you could be fired and wouldn’t race in 2009? What can you say to the people who didn’t believe in you?
FM: I have nothing to say. I just do my job, try to do the best I can. I think last year Kimi did a better championship than me. This year, I did a better championship than him. So many things change from one year to the next. We just need to do our best, what we can. I don’t have to say anything, just do my job. People write things, sometimes you write things and the day after you change your mind, so I think these people will change their minds a little bit. I don’t care. But to be honest, I hear much more good things about me than bad things, so I’m quite happy.

Q: (Rodrigo Franca – VIP Magazine) Felipe, you are the first person to say that you don’t cry a lot but today it was almost impossible on the podium. How can you tell, what mixed emotions were in your mind?
FM: I’m not normally the kind of guy who cries a lot, but I think today it was quite difficult; it was quite difficult to hold back your emotions. Maybe with my age, I’m becoming older and getting more… and crying a little bit more as well, so we’re becoming a little bit older. Today I think it was impossible. It was such a mix of emotions, I’m so proud of the Brazilian people here and it was not possible to hold back and I just let it go because it was better.