Rory Byrne Q&A

"You can't honestly get much better than that, to be honest! It was a fantastic race. I only come to two races a year, and to have a one-two the first time you actually run the car properly is something special."



"What we said is we've got to make a step in performance with the car, and to be honest it was more difficult than we thought, it took us a bit longer than we expected. But it still doesn't alter the object. You've got to do that."



"Yes, otherwise we probably would have had to be a bit more conservative in order to make sure the car got to the first race, but obviously homologating the old car with the various bits and pieces that we needed to do, we had the option."



"Early on we had a bit of a bad break with the weather, which meant that we didn't get any race distances done. Unless we've done the required number of race distances successfully, we won't race it, it's that simple."



"Yes, there was an uphill battle there. Michael was really under a lot of pressure there. And to win that was probably in a way more satisfying than this one. This was a helluva lot easier than Brazil, that's for sure!"



"Yeah. We've still got some problems, we've still got to keep working at it. Never underestimate the opposition in this game. You've got powerful teams. Williams-BMW and McLaren-Mercedes are never to be underestimated. We'll be working as hard as ever. I'm determined that we won't become complacent. We'll keep up the pressure and keep on with the development, like we always do. We've done it every year and there's no reason to change our approach, in my view."



"He did what he had to do didn't he? It was just perfect, he couldn't have done better."