Q&A: Pierre Dupasquier and Pascal Vasselon.

Michelin's Pierre Dupasquier and Pascal Vasselon talk about Sunday's Belgium Grand Prix; the performance of the Michelin tyres and a lot, lot more:

Q:
Pierre (Dupasquier). What conclusions have you drawn from today's race?

Pierre Dupasquier:
We learned that the dry weather tyres we brought this weekend were well suited to Spa-Francorchamps. Both types were used in the race and they produced a very similar level of performance. For instance McLaren drivers David Coulthard and Kimi R?ikk?nen used different compounds and they proved to be fairly evenly matched.

Q:
What was the main difference between your primary (A) and your option (B) tyres?

PD:
The interesting thing is that the tyres came from different 'families' in terms of compound and they provided an equally strong level of performance, which was pretty much as we expected. Furthermore, we had no problems with wear.

Q:
Pascal (Vasselon). In the race we saw that Michelin's partner teams monopolised most of the 12 places...

Pascal Vasselon:
We were very happy with the way our tyres performed - and so were our partner teams. Our tyres helped Jaguar to put in a very strong points-scoring performance and Toyota had a good race too.

Q:
This weekend Michelin proved to be consistently competitive in both qualifying and the race...

PV:
Absolutely. Both our dry-weather compounds were well suited to Spa throughout the weekend, no matter what fuel loads cars were running.