October 16, 2009
Published on tags: Superleague
The Spanish Grand Prix in Valencia brought us emotions, a few tense final laps and the confirmation of Nordsjoen as 2009 Constructors' Champions. Today, at the customary post-race Press Conference, we have race winner Lee Morris (ENG, CSG Racing), runner-up Janne Tanskanen (FIN, Evans Blue Racing) and third placed Joe Consiglio (MLT, Nordsjoen Racing).

Q. Congratulations to you all - an exciting race end to end with plenty to talk about, and surely one in which you had to sweat to get it your way, Lee.

LM. Yeah, it should never have been that close. In testing, me and Nick [Rowland] were doing 38/39 race pace; come to race and I was stuck in high 40's! I have no idea why and the tyres grained so quick. It was like a different car, I just had no pace at all.

Q. And Janne, you gave him a true battle until the end - how can you describe your race?

JT. The race was good but the car was bad. Lee had chosen less wings and downforce so it was very difficult to keep him behind. I had some opportunities to pass him but my car lacked the final speed, and maybe I could mention the collision which I havent seen on video yet and have no comment on it.

Q. How does this race leaves you in the fight for the Championship?

JT. It remains difficult if Joe wont face any troubles. I think he will be faster in future but we'll keep fighting until the end.

Q. Joe, did the situation in the Drivers' Championship influence the way you took this race? You seemed to coast towards the end, today.

JC. In a word, yes. I didn't want to risk anything tonight. Adam was 40 seconds behind and I wasn't gonna catch Janne or Lee in the late stages. After my pitstop I was pegging the gap at 10 seconds to Janne but not able to close in, so I decided to turn the boost down and coast home in 3rd. To be honest I was lacking half a second here, maybe even more. I drove a pretty clean race though so not too bad in the end.

Q. Thank you all - and see you in Spa in a week for a race that could play another important moment in the World Championship.