Patrick Head Q&A

"I haven't had time to think about it much since the race. I usually think about things in the evening afterwards. It's obviously great to win again, but I think without being too soft about it I think part of the satisfaction is seeing the team working so well, because we've had a few problems in the team getting everything working well together on the technical side. Not so much with the actual mechanics and things, they've always been doing a good job. But the team is really working well together this year, and I just enjoy seeing that happening, and I don't think, 'Oh, gawd, I've got to do this, I've got to do that,' I can see other people are picking the torch up and getting on and doing things themselves. It's good to see."



"He didn't put a foot wrong. It was a perfect drive, a fantastic start, fantastic control when he slowly pulled away from David Coulthard. Just a brilliant job. And then the latter part of the race, after the second pit stop, when he knew that he was out 10 seconds ahead of David, it was then just a question of controlling the gap so he didn't stress the car too much. It was very good. An excellent job."



"I don't know. He spun off a few times, he's been in the odd gravel trap, he's thumped a few other cars that he might have avoided - not Barrichello! I suppose I've obviously seen some pretty good performances from drivers over the years, and to win a championship, you've got to be a class driver. And part of that is avoiding problems and staying on the track or whatever. All I can say is that Ralf did it perfectly today, and I suspect that doing it for the first time perfectly helps you a lot really. It tells you that you can do it, and it gives you an idea about how you can go about doing it. I think it will be very good for him, what happened today."



"I don't know. It's too early. He's certainly very high on speed, and determination, and tenacity. And I can't fault his race craft and steadiness under pressure today. I suspect that he'll build on that and carry on in that vein."



"I don't believe that Michelin will get it right on every track and in every circuit condition, wet or dry, in their first year back in F1. I think it's an unrealistic expectation. But we'll go to every race trying to get the best result we can, and we'll see how it goes."



"He doesn't like being held up, does he? It was a great move, and it was a pity that we couldn't provide him with a better car. He wasn't very happy with his car today. He wasn't blaming it, but he didn't really have the handling the way he wanted it. We've had some fairly messy practice sessions with him this year. The only one that's gone smoothly, where we had no problems, has been Brazil - and he made a mistake on his first run in qualifying. But the other races have all been messed up, and the only dry practice on Friday afternoon we had an engine problem which meant we couldn't run him. It was a pity for him, because he didn't get mileage on the track, and I think he needed that in order to know exactly how to get his car set for the race."



"Basically he'd told us that he'd got a clutch warning light on. We looked at the data and could see there was a problem. We asked him to go for a couple of switch settings in the car that we could change as far as the clutch is concerned, but basically it looked as though there was mechanical damage to the clutch when he came in. So we have to take it apart to understand why."



"I would expect it to be fairly similar at the front."