Allan McNish Q&A

"For the team overall it would have been better if two cars were up there, but to score a point on our debut was more than I think anyone could have expected. It was a bit like a fairytale really. Also I feel that the team performance was exceptional, for a first GP. Everyone kept their head."



"It did go pretty smoothly, actually. The first day there were a few nerves from everybody in the team. Nobody wanted to make any mistakes, and everybody did their job very well, and we built on that on Saturday. Really we can all be quite pleased with the way it went. It's funny, because you're relieved on the first day, and then after that you just think about how you can go quicker and how you can go better."



"Not a heck of a lot, except that I just wanted to get out there and get on with it. Especially on the first run everyone just wanted to make sure that everything went cleanly and there were no problems when we went out of the pits, and also from my point of view that nothing happened in the first laps. Then after that we just settled down very, very quickly and concentrated on doing our jobs."



"I think you appreciate it more. It's not necessarily that there's lots more emotion or anything like that, because I don't think there's much room for emotion here. OK you can be emotional for five minutes, but then you've got to get on with it."



"Hopefully that's one of the assets! Yes, it's something you've got to use and work with and fall back on all the time. There's no substitute for experience in many ways."



"We've done quite a lot of testing and worked quite hard on that side, so I think we can be pretty satisfied on where we are at the moment."



"I think that will be the easy part. The build-up was the hard part. Now we're doing what we know best, and that's go racing. We've done a lot of the hard work, and there's a different kind of hard work ahead."