QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
Q: (Dan Knutson – Honorary)
Following up on the question on the pecking order, from first through twelfth, where do you see yourselves now and when you get the car more sorted, where do you have the potential to be? For the front row?
Pat Fry:
I think here the grid will look quite similar to that at the last two races. I don't think the pecking order is going to swing around that much. We're going to be somewhere around seventh to eleventh or something. Obviously we need to get a better car so that ultimately we're qualifying on pole. It would be nice to be able to sit and say we're qualifying on pole, take a five place penalty and start sixth. That would be quite a luxury really.
Paddy Lowe:
As I said earlier, we're very pleased to have taken the front row in the first two races. Also, as Pat said, the upgrade war which is a relentless one through the season has already begun so we can't rely on maintaining that performance even to this race; we've all brought upgrades this weekend, so we hope to be able to maintain that through tomorrow and take the front row again, but we certainly can't rely on it and certainly can't rely on staying there throughout the rest of the season. It will be long and very tough.
James Allison:
I think our best car was third in Australia, sixth in Sepang so I guess that puts us P four and a half. I've got no idea where we will come in this race. I think, like the other two, that the pecking order is likely to be largely unchanged. We're all pushing similarly hard developing our cars and I see no reason why there should be any substantial change to the running order. What will make the difference is very small errors during qualifying because the grid positions are separated by less than a tenth of a second.
Q: (Ted Kravitz – Sky Sports)
This is for everybody except for James: did you agree with Lotus in their assertion that the Mercedes system was against article 3.15?
Matt Morris:
I don't think it's really for us to comment on the argument that James has had. We've got our views on it but it's not really for us to discuss that.
Antonio Cuquerella:
I think we have the same point of view. We understand both parties and we accept what the
FIA has said.
Dave Greenwood:
Exactly the same. I think it's a matter for the
FIA and the other two parties involved.
Paddy Lowe:
For us it was a point of quite tricky interpretation so what we mainly wanted was clarity, so we have a clear decision from the stewards and I think that's better than the uncertainty that we've had in the last few weeks.
Pat Fry:
I think there's always different ways to interpret the rules, we've seen that going on for years. At least now there's a clear decision; we obviously respect that decision. People are always trying to stretch the limit of the rules. We had a wing that was legal in Barcelona on a Friday, Friday night it wasn't. Again, we respected that decision and took it off the car.
Q: (Dan Knutson – Honorary)
Pat Fry has talked about 'no golden bullet to fix the Ferrari';
McLaren is very quick so this is for the other four guys: what one area of the car do you really need to work on to make it even better?
Matt Morris: