Gascoyne happy with TF104B

Instead Gascoyne has hinted that the team's two drivers were the ones that failed to shine at Hockenheim, not the car.

Olivier Panis stalled his car on the grid - whilst in ninth spot - at the start of the race and was relegated to the back for the next start. The Frenchman brought his car home a disappointing 14th. Team-mate Cristiano da Matta meanwhile retired from the race with a puncture - the Brazilian had qualified a lowly 15th.

While Gascoyne refused to publicly criticise the team's drivers, he did believe that the pace of the new car had not been in question.

"There's nothing wrong with the car, not a single problem," he told this week's Autosport. "I've always said that if you do the wind tunnel testing properly and make it work to the right level of accuracy, then what you have in the tunnel is what you have at the track, as happened with this car.

"I don't think we've got any issues. We were able to get the car dialled in pretty quickly, so we don't have any issues from a set-up point of view. We don't need to learn anything more from the car. We've got the performance gain we expected and we've got a new package coming for Monza, so I'm confident we're going to score some points, but it's just frustrating because we should have scored them here."

Gascoyne revealed that next year's car will be a development of the TF104B with soe added aerodynamics.

"We need to find another second in aerodynamics," he said. "But I'm very confident we know how to do that."