By Phil Huff
April 17 2009

Rubens Barrichello represented Brawn GP in yesterdays press conference, talking about his bleak winter, tyres in Shanghai, the diffuser ruling and the chances of the pack catching Brawn. Here's the transcript of what was said...

Rubens, this is a really good circuit for you. You have finished all five races and you won in 2004. Do you know who was second in 2004?

Jenson.

So it is looking pretty good, isn't it?

Yeah, I like the track very much. It is a track on which I've always gone quite well. The weather is going to be dodgy, maybe just because we changed the date of the race. It could play into good hands. I think the first two races have been quite good for the spectators to see the racing plus the wet has brought more of a show, so I think this one will be no different.

Two months ago, you probably didn't have a Grand Prix seat. Tell us about your emotions regarding the start of this season?

As I've mentioned before, I've always been very, very positive about myself racing. But in all honesty, I think only myself and probably my two kids knew that I was going to race. It was fun to watch them, in the way that they look at it: â??he's having a longer holiday but he's going to go sometime soon.' Not even my wife knew if I was going to race, or the whole of Brazil. So it was nice to see that. I knew the car was going to be good, I didn't know how good. We knew the engine was very, very strong, as it is, so it was just a dream when they phoned me and said I was going to drive. After four laps in the car, I could see it was very competitive.

What are you feelings about the tyre choices for this race? Different temperatures here too; it seems to be all over the place.

It is. Myself, I still need to understand what is the reason why we bring such different tyres, if it's for the show itself or... I think we have a very good tyre for here and a softer tyre which all the teams might struggle with. That may make the race itself very nice because someone might be struggling, you have overtaking and that's quite nice, but I'm sure we're capable of bringing - out of the four types of tyre that we have - we can bring different tyres that can be better for us drivers. In Australia, the tyres were already graining after five laps and it will be the same here, possibly even more because the track itself is more abrasive, and if it's cold the tyres are going to be a bad effect. If this is for the show itself, I don't think it's dangerous for us - danger in the way that you could be driving five seconds slower and another car is catching up quite quickly, but it's lovely for the show itself.

Can you tell us about the decision of the court of appeal?

I like the decision a lot!

Have you stayed out in Asia and what have you been up to if you have?

I've been back to Brazil, so I've been flying for four days already.

Lewis Hamilton said yesterday that this is only the start after the decision. Brawn GP is leading (the Constructors) at the moment but usually in the middle of the season more competitive drivers emerge and Brawn GP won't have as much advantage as they have now. What do you think about this opinion?

I hope he's wrong.