Team-mate
Robert Kubica failed to finish inside the points on his maiden appearance at Interlagos this time last year, coming home a frustrated ninth. This time around the Pole – one of the revelations of the 2007 season, scoring points on no fewer than eleven occasions – is certainly aiming to end the year on a high.
“Of course we are looking forward to Brazil,” the 22-year-old asserted. “We will try our best, and then everything we do once we get back to Europe will be new as we will be working for next year. The track itself is very bumpy and quite tricky. There is a big uphill section after the last corner where last year we were losing a lot of speed, especially in the race, so I hope we can do better this year. Though the 2006 race was not bad, I only finished ninth. This year I want to score points.”
“For the BMW-Sauber
F1 Team this has been a successful season,” added
BMW Motorsport Director Dr Mario Theissen. “We can be proud of what we have achieved, both in terms of our development work over the winter and the pace of development during the season.
“In our two start-up years we have reached our target each time. In 2007 we started out from fifth place in the world championship, with 36 championship points earned in our debut season. [In 2007] fourth place with a clear points increase was a firm commitment, third place an option. It was very gratifying to be able to see ourselves as the third-strongest team right from the start and to shore up that position in virtually every race. An administrative decision handed us second place on a plate, but that really doesn’t mean anything to us as we know there are still four cars that are faster than ours. Our aim is to beat them out on the race track.”
Toyota – Ralf Schumacher (#11), Jarno Trulli (#12):
Ralf Schumacher will make the last of his 54 grand prix outings for Toyota in this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, as the German gets set to move onto pastures new next year at the end of a frustrating 2007.
