Kolles: new owners will boost Spyker

Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya and Dutch entrepreneur Michiel Mol have completed their takeover of the outfit today, and Kolles believes the move will finally allow the team to design a car they can be proud of.

He has made it clear, however, that there will not be a sudden injection of cash to overhaul the factory and staff.

"It's a little bit different. You have to see it like this," he told autosport.com. "You have an old airplane, and you have to restore this old airplane. It was once a successful airplane, but then at a certain stage it was not successful anymore so you have to do a restoration to it.

"If you have a lot of money you restore the airplane quite quickly. If you have not so much money, it takes longer. But now, the process of restoration is done. We have upgraded the factory, we have upgraded the wind tunnel.

"Now, the people have the instruments to produce a good car. So now you need the fuel to take off. And this is basically how you have to see it."

Although Spyker are planning to expand their number of staff, Kolles said there will not be a huge recruitment drive.

"Not if you speak in terms of, all of a sudden you add 100 more people. That's not the plan. We have to have the right quality. We have a lot of young engineers under the leadership of Mike [Gascoyne], who has a lot of experience, and I think that this is a good mixture.

"We will have more people obviously, because we want to run the wind tunnel for 24 hours so you need to have more people to pick up those capabilities. So this will be improved. But it's not that you will increase the staff by 30 percent or something. It will be selective."

Kolles said he was also unsure about whether or not the team's name would change.

"There are certain regulations that we have to follow, so we have to look into it. It would definitely be the plan to change the name," he said.