Ross Brawn Q&A

"Rubens was very keen on the two-stop. He was so confident of doing it; it was close between the two and one here, but he wanted to go for it again. He really felt on top of it today, Rubens. He had a good car, he felt really strong, so we gave him a little bit of head, and off he went. We don't see overtaking very often and he overtook seven or eight cars. He started 18th and won the race, and while a few were overtaken in the pits, it was a superb drive and he didn't put a foot wrong."

"It was. Obviously Frentzen made the same decision. I think if the race had run normally, we would have still finished third. Then you've got to hope for some unusual circumstances, which is what happened."

"We'd done a pit stop, so it was a question of do we or don't we? I was pleased with that decision, because that was the thing that made the middle of the race. Then it was Rubens who made the call on tyres, which was another fantastic decision."

"I just said, 'It's pouring with rain here Rubens, what's it like?' He said, 'It's dry out here,' came through the stadium once, and said, 'No, I want to stay out.' I said 'Great, go for it, because it could win us the race.'"

"Exactly. We had to commit to it. We had to commit one way or the other - we had to commit to wets or staying on dries. The worst thing would be to stay out there and then come in for wets, which is what David suffered from."

"Yes, I was a bit anxious. I could see Hakkinen was struggling in the dry bits, although less on the other bit of the track on wets. But Rubens didn't seem that bad - of course running on the dry bit kept the temperature of the tyres up, so he could tolerate the stadium."

"A lot I would think!"

"It's not running well for us at the moment in that respect. Obviously I was hoping here that we were going to pull out of the dip, but you can't do much about things like that. So we'll take strength from Rubens' result and come back at Hungary."