Ove Andersson Q&A

"I think the most difficult thing we have to deal with is to get the team up and running, to get team running and working properly. That for me is the biggest challenge."



"Well, we have started testing, we are learning, we are going ahead, and hopefully in the not too distant future we will get everything together in the proper way."



"I think obviously we learn some things from the car, but at the moment this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to get the guys to work together, to get them to function in an automatic way, to get the information flowing, to get everything right."



"Of course we are. We're working on the electronic systems, traction control, and all these kinds of things. Surely as we go along we've now been on several different circuits where the races have been held, so we're learning a lot."



"Yes, I think that we have no reason to be disappointed at all."



"Generally speaking Mr de Cortanze and myself disagreed really on how the project should be handled and run. That he left the team has nothing to do with his technical abilities, it was more on the management side."



"Yes and no. I think Gustav Brunner coming to the team is a very positive thing that's happened to us, and from that point of view I think that it was really a step in the right direction."



"Gustav has a lot of experience, and I think he's very highly regarded for his abilities. And besides in human terms he's a very nice guy to work with, and I think the whole team is very happy with him from that point of view. And then the fact that he could join the team on a very short notice."



"There's no doubt that his recent F1 experience is a big plus for us."



"For the time being, yes. I think it's more the other way round, that we don't live up to their expectations! But I hope we'll be on top of that soon."



"Not at all. I have very little contact as a matter of fact with any of the other teams at the moment. I know that there are some rumours that we don't feel welcome and so on, but this is a misinterpretation of what I said in an interview. I said Mr Ecclestone and Mr Mosley have made us feel very welcome, they've really done everything to help us to get in a good way. Then I said that I cannot talk about the teams because I've had so little contact with any of them. My opinion is that everybody should be happy that Toyota joins F1, because it's a new manufacturer and a big manufacturer, and I think this gives a lot of credit to the sport."



"Well, to get to the top in rallying was a long, long progress, because it was something that started with three guys in 1975, up until what it is today. Today we have the support and we have the back up from the factory for the whole project, so hopefully we might be able to do it in a much shorter time than it took to be successful in rallying."



"No, I think the hard times were when I started to build this whole organisation up from the beginning. At the moment there is a lot of work, there are a lot of problems, many difficulties and so on, but it's a new challenge and it's very exciting. I don't mind if there is a lot of work."