By Phil Huff
October 19 2006

With Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher in the today's press conference, questions for local man Rubens Barrichello were a bit scarce. Here's everything the Honda Racing F1 driver had to say. Rubens, a year ago you were a Ferrari driver, this year a Honda driver. What difference has that made, how has life changed for you over the last year?

I think not much in the way that for the Brazilian Grand Prix I behave just the same. We've had so many commitments to do and it was just the same. Obviously I don't come here having a car that I know I can win with, so that means a little bit less pressure, but that's less happy. I would like to have that pressure back and have the car to win. I think that the car that I've got now is definitely better than in previous years to Ferrari, so it's not that it cannot happen but it's obviously a slim chance.

Two poles, a third and a fourth; those are your best results, it's a little bit slim to better that, is it?

I think everything is really possible, and because we have that situation saying that, it's a smaller chance. It's slim, but it means less pressure, so you just get on with it and do it, so I'm not under pressure, just relaxed. I will just go and drive my best. I don't know what the weather is going to do. It's going to be very difficult to choose a tyre here because we really don't know. I spoke to the team last week and they said 'how is the weather there?' and I said I have no idea, because one day it can be thirty degrees and the next day it can be fifteen, so the tyre choice is going to be really the main factor this weekend.

Obviously you have been team-mates with Michael for many years, what are your thoughts looking at the championship battles?

Yeah, I thought that when the championship started it looked like Renault would win very easily and the way things were going, they were doing very well. There were some occasions when Ferrari went up and down but they were there and scoring points and so on, but for me there was no way they could get up to Fernando. But all of a sudden they did, they scored higher points and Michael was winning races and in Japan, you would have said there was no way to hold him back and he's going to go to Sao Paulo with the best chance and look what happened there. Now I don't know. If it really happens that (they score) ten points for Michael and zero for Alonso, I think this is something that never happened in Formula One, so I think it's quite impossible, maybe one percent away from impossible.