Gary Anderson Q&A

"It's like I've never been away. We've just got to get on and do the work. There are a few things that need to be sorted out in this team, and most of that is being attended to."



"He's coming in to head up the design team. I was for years stuck in an office doing things, although I came to races as well, and had the pressure of trying to get it all fixed. I don't really want that pressure. I don't won't the job. I've got no sort of ego trip, and I hope he can contribute to the speed of the car. That's all that matters at the end of the day."



"Well, we were 2s off the pace in Melbourne, and 2.3s or something in Malaysia. That's pretty much where we are. There's nothing right or wrong about it, it's just a place to start working from. I was pleased with the weekend because we had absolutely zero mechanical problems, after a few little troubles in Melbourne. We put some procedures in place to fix things, and that worked OK."



"A long way to go for both us and for Honda, but none of us are perfect. The biggest thing is to make inroads into it now. The money they spend at the top end of the grid is huge, and Ferrari does a very, very good job. The Williams and BMW combination is good, but I suppose McLaren must be a bit pissed off now. Last year they were using the philosophy that Williams had one over on them on the tyres, and now they're on equal tyres Williams still seems to get one over on them."



"Taku did a good job in Malaysia, I think. He was quick in qualifying but never quite got the last section right. He was a lot better in that area on Sunday, but his race ended in the accident."



"There was a Toyota in the middle of it and a bit of confusion. One of our guys was doing one pitstop strategy, and one was doing two - Taku was on two and Giancarlo was on one. There was a bit of overexuberance! They were going to let each other past, so it would have been OK."



"We tried in the morning and we thought we could get there with a little bit of help from a bit of rubber being put down. That was the basic plan. It was the only way that we could have done something different from where we were. We weren't fast enough to race the quick guys doing the same thing."