Q & A with Christian Horner

Team boss Christian Horner says now the team can keep its momentum.

Q. You were lucky in a way that you had Barrichello between your two drivers. If you had both racing together how would have handled that situation?

Christian Horner: I think Sebastian had effectively delivered a stunning performance yesterday on the heavier fuel and effectively being longer always gives you the priority, or the preferable strategy. So basically Sebastian went a long way to winning this race yesterday during qualifying.

Q. Bridgestone said previously that you had problems with rear graining but now the tyres were graining in an equal way, is that still graining better than the Brawns?

CH: I don't know because I don't know how the Brawns are graining. But I think the tyre and how we've managed the tyre has been very good this weekend. We've managed to extract the maximum. You saw on the hard tyre even, Mark was able to get to Q3 on the hard tyre. Which was massively impressive.

Q. What do you expect from the hot races?

CH: I think we will be okay. In Bahrain we were fine, in Barcelona we were okay, so I think with the development profile that we now have, and the understanding that we get race-by-race, I think the team are doing an excellent job in understanding the tyres and therefore managing them.

Q. There was quite a big fuel difference between Mark and Sebastian, but their Q2 times were pretty close, so why did they opt for such a different strategy?

CH: Basically we decided before qualifying that that would be the way we would run the strategies and the drivers were very happy with that.

Q. If Mark hadn't got caught behind Rubens, could he have chased Sebastian?

CH: I think he certainly would have been much, much closer. He had a small problem to manage in the latter part of the race where the exhaust temperature started to creep up because a cooling panel seemed to have come off the car. But he did an excellent job of managing that. For sure he would have been closer than the 20-odd seconds he was behind.

Q. Can you give us an example of how well Sebastian has fitted in to the team?

CH: He's a young guy, he is very popular with the team. He has a great sense of humour, he is very intelligent and he also understands English humour - which is quite remarkable. Anybody that works in a team knows that it is important to have the right people around you and both drivers have a fantastic relationship with the team.

Q. How does he make people work even harder for him?

CH: He just is very good at relating to them. He is still a young guy, he is constantly cracking jokes, and he is very popular member of the team. He is famous for impersonating people, but I haven't seen his one of me yet.

Q. How does it feel for you though...

CH: For the team, as the local race, for us it's a fantastic feeling. Let's not forget that this team had never scored a point at Silverstone before this weekend so to come home with a one-two is fantastic.

Q. For you personally though, what does it mean?

CH: From a personal point of view, I won the support race here three years in succession in F3000. I raced here, and the first grand prix I ever came to was here so from a personal point of view it was a very satisfying moment.

Q. The modifications you have on the car have obviously made a difference, can you keep this momentum up?

CH: Yeah I don't see why not. The team is doing a great job, we are putting performance on the car every weekend, and I don't see any reason why we can't keep the momentum up going into the future races.

Q. Do you think you have now overtaken Brawn in the development race?

CH: Well we haven't overtaken them in the points yet so when we've overtaken them in the points then yes.