Kolles positive about Spyker's future

Although the Ferrari-powered team's drivers failed to impress at the season-opening event, Kolles believes their race pace was encouraging.

Rookie Adrian Sutil finished the race in 17th position, over two laps down, while teammate Christijan Albers retired after making a driver error and crashing on lap 11.

"We have a very positive feeling for the future," Kolles said on the team's website. "Extremely positive, to be honest.

"Our problem is qualifying, and we're not getting temperature into the tyres, or at least on this track, so we were struggling for a competitive lap time on Saturday.

"But you just have to look at Adrian's times in the race and compare them to other cars and you'll see that he was quite competitive."

The team will have an aerodynamic update for the next race in Malaysia, and Kolles is hopeful it will produce significant gains.

"We have an update coming, and hopefully it will help. In our simulations, in our wind tunnels, it looks pretty significant. We'll see how it is on track."