Q:
The team itself is at a very early stage. What’s the current situation?
Ed Tilley:
We have a team manager on board, Carl Ayriss, who has been in Motorsport for 36 years and we have Ray Grimes who is also onboard as a driving instructor and operations manager. We are still looking for key personnel like race engineers and mechanics. As far as the workshops are concerned, we are fully kitted out. We have all the equipment that we need, we have the trucks and the awnings and are ready to go, bar all the staff.
Q:
From a driver point of view, do you have anyone lined up or are you still actively seeking drivers?
Ed Tilley:
We’re speaking to a number of drivers and I’m considering driving one myself. We are talking to five or six drivers at the moment but it depends on whether they are happy with us and whether the budgets are in place. But we should hopefully be testing drivers in the first week in February.
Q:
This is a learning year, so what do you hope to achieve on track?
Ed Tilley:
Being in the gravel or parked in the pitlane won’t score us any points so we want to aim for reliability and just learn as much as we can. The more laps we are doing, the more data we are gathering and the more it will help us for 2008. We just need to start as high up the grid as we can, finish as many races as possible and see how it goes.
