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Belgian GP: Thursday Press Conference

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27/08/2009

Sebastian, what are your feelings about last weekend? You had new bits on the car.
Sebastien Buemi: I would say that it was a difficult weekend in the end but we could improve our performance. We see that if we put everything together we can be in the top 10 which is quite positive. We just need to keep pushing hard. We will have another small step on the car for this weekend, so hopefully we will be able to have a clean weekend without any mistakes or whatever. I am sure if we can put everything together we can finish around P10 or P8.

You have got a new team-mate. Has that affected your decisions as obviously Sebastien Bourdais had more experience than Jaime Alguersuari?
SB: I would say not really. I am not looking too much at him. I can look at the testing he is doing and if I can improve myself I always take it but in the end I really try to keep all the focus on myself with my engineer. It is important to see what your team-mate is doing but in the end it doesn't make you faster. For sure it changes a little bit because Bourdais had quite a bit more experience than me and now maybe I am a little bit more leading with decisions in the testing, so for sure it is a bit different but I would say that it doesn't change so much.

What about this circuit? You have been here in GP2 but it is the first time here in a Formula One car. Talk about the commitment to this circuit with the fast curves compared to say Valencia last weekend.
SB: It is going to be quite a big difference I think. If you look at the lap time it is nearly 10 seconds, so it is quite big. Now it is nearly 11 races I have done in F1, so I am getting used to it. We will see what we can do. The circuit should be good for our car as we saw Red Bull performed really well in Silverstone. It was a fast circuit and it is again the case here, so we should be quite confident at the moment.

How are your thoughts about coming here and the commitment around these fast corners in only your second Formula One race?
Romain Grosjean: Well, it is going to be interesting to see the difference between the Formula One car and the GP2 car. For me the aim is still to learn. I think there are still many things to learn. Having Fernando (Alonso) is a great help for me. I try to improve and see what he is doing to improve myself.

What about your feelings after your first grand prix? Were there any surprises for you?
RG: Very hot. No, it was a nice grand prix. The aim was to finish the race, trying to get as much experience as possible. In this particular case it was very good. I could notice some things on the car which I didn't notice before the race, so we know a little bit more where we can work here. It was very interesting for me, the start and all the procedures, the pit stop procedure, the length of the race. All this was quite new and there is still a lot to do about it but it was good to finish the race and get some experience.

And since then working up to this race? How much more homework have you done for this race?
RG: Well, not much difference. I think the team helped me a lot before Valencia trying to send me as much information as possible and here I think they are doing the same. We have to take the weekend in the same way that we did Valencia, trying to improve session by session and to see what we can achieve by the end of the weekend.

Just a little personal question. Is it true you still work in your father's bank?
RG: Well, it is not my father's bank. But, yes, I am still working in Geneva in the bank and I went on Tuesday morning, the only day I had in Geneva, and it was very good to stay with my previous life and get back to the bank. Everybody was very happy to see me there and it was a great moment.

Heikki is just considering whether to move his account to your bank?
RG: Very nice.

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