Dennis: We Still Know How to Win

The McLaren team have not forgotten how to win races, but it will be some time before they are capable of fighting for the top step of the podium again, according to team boss Ron Dennis.

The Woking-based squad, who have scored only 14 points in six races so far this year, failed to shine again at Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix, with Scot David Coulthard finishing in sixth position behind the Jordan of Giancarlo Fisichella. Coulthard last won a race in Austria in 2001.

"The level of our competitiveness should have given us no more that fifth and sixth assuming both Ferraris and both Williams finished," said Dennis. "The lack of an oil flag following another car's engine failure left David with no warning and his subsequent off track excursion allowed Fisichella to pass going into the chicane.

"We know what we have to do to improve our performance, it will take time to achieve it, but we haven't forgotten how to win."

Finn Kimi Raikkonen retired with mechanical problems for the fifth consecutive race.