Rubens, it's been a tough weekend for Brawn Grand Prix. You're second, your team-mate, Jenson Button, is down in sixth place. It looks like it's been hard work; you must be pleased with the outcome today.

Very, very pleased. I think those guys have been doing a fantastic job the whole weekend. For me, too, it was the best lap of the weekend in Q3 where I took the extreme of the car. I need to check if I breathed during the lap because it was such a nice one. Silverstone has always been quite good and I want to thank all my engineers for their hard work because we found a good balance and I'm pleased to be in the middle of them (the Red Bulls) at least. It's going to be hard to beat them tomorrow but that's what I'm here for.

Has it been a bit more difficult for Brawn to get the tyres up to temperature?

Overall, it has been a little bit more difficult to get the lap done. Basically we seem to be where we wanted to be but we think Red Bull just made a step and they are better, so I'm delighted to be here, right now, splitting them because it was a really good effort from me with the car on the track and from my engineers to put everything together. It was a good thought this morning but the car was still not the way I like. Silverstone, for me, is very special, I love it and I took everything I could out of the car in qualifying, apart from Q1, when I could only manage one lap because of Sutil's accident. I was really, really happy with the lap and I thought today P3 was the best I could manage and P2 is one better and I hope I can do one better tomorrow.

How much did you change the car overnight, how much did you change the car between this morning and this afternoon?

Well, Formula One nowadays is funny, it's really good to work on it because you change so much from day to day. It's not like it used to be: a touch on the front wing or a touch of this or that. You change things, especially with myself and the enthusiasm I have to change things overnight, you just do so and see what happens. If you don't you have a baseline on which you can faith. We did change the car a little bit from yesterday, it wasn't that good this morning but then we fine-tuned for qualifying which was to my liking again.

Tell us a little about your love affair with Silverstone.

I've had two pole positions here. For me, there is a positive and a negative about it. The negative is why the hell are they taking this race away from here? You can see the fans, you can see they made such a big effort on the outside to make the traffic better. I know they cannot make an effort to improve the weather but that's England. If you change to anywhere in England it's going to be the same. The track is safe. You saw Sutil today walk from what looked like a very hard impact, so it is safe. The positives are that I love this place that since Formula Three I've run here so much and I get on with the circuit, so it's really nice.