By Phil Huff
July 6 2007

Honda Racing F1's Rubens Barrichello sat in a rather short pre-race press conference at Silverstone, reminiscing on his win from 2003, and chatting about how much he likes the circuit that hosts the British Grand Prix - even if Bernie, doesn't. Here's the full, if rather brief, transcript of what he had to say.

Rubens, a winner here and two pole positions as well. Could be wet this weekend. Is that going to be good for you?

I think so. It's a track that I think is probably the best that I enjoy. I enjoy coming to it more than others, wet or dry. I do enjoy coming here. When I used to test in Formula Three I didn't know I enjoyed it that much, but I really do in a Formula One car.

Looking back at that win, a lot of overtaking manoeuvres.

People consider that to be my best race. It was really nice to be able to overtake and the car was perfect that weekend, with the right choice of tyres and everything. Hopefully I'm going to have some sort of a repeat this weekend.

Do you think it's going to hurt you that you didn't test here, whereas everybody else did apart from yourselves and Super Aguri?

The first practice, maybe, but Silverstone is a track just like Barcelona, for example, where you can test the week before and then when you go back there it's all different, they clean the track and the wind is different and it might have rained. So the first practice, if it's the same people might have an advantage but I think by the second… we have been here quite often, so it's not a problem.

The team has finally started to get on top of the car but if you look back what has been the chief problem with the car?

Since the beginning of the year the car has had some big stability problems and every time you change from high-speed to low-speed as you try to turn the car into a corner you lose the back end, so we have been addressing the problem. Magny-Cours was a lot better in that respect. I think we are going in the right direction. We are still very draggy on the straights which is something we have to improve but on braking it is much better.