A lot of things need to happen for Alonso not to win it. I don't see them happening so for me the topic is over.

What is happening to me should not happen to anyone else.

It's not looking too bad, to phrase it carefully. Or, to phrase it a little less careful: there are many things pointing in a good direction.

It has not reached the stage where I think 'hey I am not as good as these youngsters'. I want to be competing at the top and not just a run of the mill driver.

I am not happy with my lap this afternoon. It started well, but towards the middle section I began to lose grip and I think this was because the tyre pressures went up higher than we wanted, causing me to slide around. But, looking at the data, it seems it was not just down to the pressures, so the track must have been more slippery than in the morning, which can be seen from looking at the other drivers' times. When I saw my lap time, I expected to be much further back on the grid, so this is not such a bad result at the end of the day.

It's a great barometer for not only what is happening with our team at the moment but what could happen, what might happen down the road. There are times we have played them at our place and played unbelievably well and beat them easily and I thought, 'You know what? I think this team can win the national championship.' There's times when we've played them at their place and got our heads handed to us and I left there thinking, 'You know what? I'm not sure we're a national championship-type team.