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F1: Italian GP winners' press conference
David Goodwin
home, feet up
Tue Sep 12 17:01:09 EDT 1995
Q Johnny, congratulations on your 2nd win of the year. We've
got to ask you, do you think your car was a match for
Schumacher's today?
JH Well, I think Michael was doing a very good job, we
knocked of a lot of wing today and I think he was keeping
it up there. My main stategy was I trying to be happy with
the car, I probably had too much wing on for down the
straights but I was happy then to use a bit more fuel at
the beginning and then keep the car in a tidy sort of
position, keep up with everyone else then I had a longer
stint which then gave me a bit of time to really push and
then when I came into the pits I was able to get a gap.
Q Well, were you happy with your car overall?
JH It was OK again, it's been difficult all year. I'm still
finding it difficult now, but it's not as I want it.
Q No one knows where you're going next year. Surely this
result has actually helped your position in the drivers
market.
JH Well I would hope so. Winning twice in one year has got to
be good. There's not many, who have won, racing at the
moment, so hopefully there's going to be a good chance of
getting a good drive, which I think there is.
Q Mika Hakkinen, congratulations, 2nd place, your 1st podium
of the year. The car has not been that reliable this year.
Have you finally solved the problems?
MH In terms of reliability we have solved a lot of problems.
That has been our biggest enemy this year has been the
reliabilty and yes, McLaren and Mercedes, they have done
extremely good work now to develop the engine in the
situation where you can trust the engine and you can
really give a hard time to the engine from start to finish
amd you can trust it will last for the end of the race.
Q Are you confident for the rest of the season that that
progress will continue?
MH Absolutely, I can tell you there is much more to come. You
know, Company Mercedes is now very committed to McLaren
and with me and we're looking forward now for the rest of
the season to finish more often on the podium.
Q Heinz-Harold Frentzen, congratulations, your 1st podium
and you've also this week just signed for Sauber, so it
must be a great way to repay the team?
HHF Yes, that's right, it was coming all together this
weekend right thing signing for Sauber and then the 1st
podium ever. First I have to say I'm really, really happy
and I didn't know how sweet it was staying on the podium,
the crowd there shouting. For me, it was just amazing.
This is the right moment for us because we are in the
corner to going up to the better teams and going up to the
better performance and this is the right thing to start.
Q Johnny, turning to you. You're now 3rd in the championship
do you still feel you're in contention for the
championship title?
JH Well, if it keeps happening like it has been so far, then
obviously I've got a good chance of going for it, yes.
It's the 2nd time I've got 10 points. 10 points are rather
handy. It's probably brought me a lot closer and if I can
get that consistency there in the race which I haven't got
in qualifying, I've done a lot better in the races, then
if I keep totting the points up I could be there at the
end.
Q Well best of luck for the rest of the season. Gentlemen,
thank you very much.
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David Goodwin
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