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FIA post-qualifying press conference - Italian GP, Monza

Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren)
Q: Sebastian, pole number 10 this year but by half-a-second in the end after it had looked like it might be a little closer than that.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, we thought it would be much closer than that. I had a bit of an improvement in the first run for my second lap...

FIA Friday press conference - Italian GP, Monza

Team representatives: Giorgio Ascanelli (Toro Rosso), Eric Boullier (Renault), Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Tim Goss (McLaren) and Peter Sauber (Sauber).
Q: Eric, first of all, Bruno Senna had a fantastic start in Spa with a great qualifying performance. What has he brought to the team and we will come to the commercial side of that in a moment?
Eric Boullier: Nothing.

FIA post-race press conference - Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps

Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 - Mark Webber (Red Bull); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren).
Q: Sebastian, congratulations on your first Belgian Grand Prix victory. A comfortable victory, but how comfortable was it given the concern before and in the early stages of the race as to how long you could make the soft tyre last?
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, I mean we had a lot of concerns going into the race after the damage we had on the tyres from qualifying, so we weren’t quite sure...

FIA post-qualifying press conference - Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps

Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), 2 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), 3 - Mark Webber (Red Bull)
Q: Sebastian, a fascinating qualifying session: tricky and changeable conditions for you all and, for you, great timing to arrive at the line after Mark and Lewis and snatch another pole.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, it was a difficult session, all in all, Q1 and Q2 with very tricky conditions...

FIA Friday press conference - Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps

Team Representatives: Ross Brawn (Mercedes), Andrew Green (Force India), Paul Hembery (Pirelli), Christian Horner (Red Bull), Paddy Lowe (McLaren), Luca Marmorini (Ferrari).
Q: Andrew, interesting comment from the Team Principal Vijay Mallya saying that the car is now a car for all tracks. Of course, we knew it as a low downforce car in a way, so what has been required to make it a car for all tracks.
Andrew Green: I don’t know if I should tell you that...

FIA post-race press conference - Hungarian GP, Budapest

Drivers: 1 - Jenson Button (McLaren); 2 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 3 - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari).
Q: Jenson, what a way to mark your 200th Grand Prix. Finally, you can start to mark the occasion and start the party.
Jenson Button: Yeah, it is good having a couple of weeks' break, as it might take me that long to get over tonight!

FIA post-qualifying press conference - Hungarian GP, Budapest

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Drivers: 1 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 2 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren); 3 - Jenson Button (McLaren)
Q: Sebastian, you picked the right moment didn’t you to set your fastest lap of any of the qualifying sessions: right on your final flying lap.

FIA Friday press conference - Hungarian GP, Budapest

Team representatives: Eric Boullier (Renault), Graeme Lowdon (Marussia Virgin Racing), Jonathan Neale (McLaren), Adrian Newey (Red Bull), Rob White (Renault Sport F1) 
Q: Rob, about the engine rules. Just exactly what does that mean to you, the new engine rules for 2014?

FIA post-race press conference - German GP, Nürburgring

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Drivers: 1 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren); 2 - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari); 3 - Mark Webber (Red Bull)
Q: Lewis, your second win of the season and I get the feeling that meant a little bit more than your first win of the season.
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, I think so...

FIA post-qualifying press conference - German GP, Nürburgring

Drivers: 1 - Mark Webber (Red Bull), 2 - Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) and 3 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull).
Q: Mark, pole position for the second grand prix in a row and also the second grand prix in a row here. Is it something about this track or have you just got your mojo back at the moment?
Mark Webber: Probably a little bit of both, mate, I think...

FIA Friday press conference - German GP, Nürburgring

Team Representatives: James Allison (Renault), Stefano Domenicali (Ferrari), Mark Gallagher (Cosworth), Norbert Haug (Mercedes), Monisha Kaltenborn (Sauber).
Q: Mark, how much of a loss has the Williams team been and apparently you are confident of replacing them with another manufacturer?
Mark Gallagher: Yeah, it has been an interesting few weeks as the decision Williams has taken to go with Renault starting next season is, from a human point of view inside Cosworth, disappointing...

FIA post-race press conference - British GP, Silverstone

Drivers: 1 - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari); 2 - Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull); 3 - Mark Webber (Red Bull).
Q: Fernando, the first win of the season for you and Ferrari. You were gifted the lead by Red Bull but do you feel you forced the mistake today?
Fernando Alonso: Well I don't know. It is difficult to know...

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Virgin Racing reveal details of the VR-01

The new Virgin Racing team, one of four new entrants to the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship, have published details of their debut race car - the Cosworth-powered VR-01, which has been designed entirely in the digital domain using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics). The black and red liveried car, which will be raced by Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi, was launched online on Wednesday and will begin a two-day shakedown test at Silverstone on Thursday.
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2012 Race Drivers

Sebastian Vettel
Mark Webber
Lewis Hamilton
Jenson Button
Fernando Alonso
Felipe Massa
Michael Schumacher
Nico Rosberg
Kimi Räikkönen
Romain Grosjean
Paul di Resta
Nico Hulkenberg
Kamui Kobayashi
Sergio Perez
Daniel Ricciardo
Jean-Eric Vergne
Pastor Maldonado
Bruno Senna
Heikki Kovalainen
Vitaly Petrov
Pedro de la Rosa
Narain Karthikeyan
Timo Glock
Charles Pic

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