"The STR3 is much better. Introducing it once the season was underway was the wise choice, although its introduction has not been painless. We suffered a significant lack of parts, which delayed the introduction of the new car from Turkey to Monaco - but I think, as I've said before, that we were brave, mad and clever to launch the car in Monaco, because it did pay off.
"We handled a difficult situation in terms of parts rather well, and this weekend at
Silverstone should be the first race where we have sufficient parts to race at a decent level. One side effect of this will be that our drivers will feel freer to take a few more risks because, up until now, they have been very mindful of our parts availability situation. I hope they will now be more daring and consequently go faster!
"We are not yet where we should be with the new car. The last race in France produced a good qualifying and race, but I feel that neither our drivers nor we engineers have yet taken the best out of the car. We still have a steep learning curve and there is more to come. This is partly due to the fact that we adopted a significant aero upgrade for the Magny Cours race having only had the briefest of tests in Barcelona. It changed the car quite significantly and we are still learning how to get the most out of the new package.
"We have reached the point in the season where we are already working towards the 2009 car. However, before then, there is the small matter of the remaining ten races to deal with. Of the coming circuits, the high speed ones favour us a bit more, so we should be alright everywhere except Hungary.
