Ross Brawn Quotations

With this car, we've made the final step we wanted to make where Aldo is totally responsible.

This winter and next year he'll do a few more serious tests. It's a kind of open-ended agreement,

One was a nice day out and the last one was a bit more serious. You can see he's got huge potential,

Now they are saying that the tire rule is being changed because it doesn't suit Ferrari!

I don't think he wants the tag of America last year as his first victory. So for sure it's the first proper victory of an Aldo Costa-designed car. It's a good precedent for the future.

He wants to drive a car which wins races and it's up to us to provide him with one.

I think today was a bit too extreme,

I think the thing that's difficult to give Valentino in the shorter term is four-wheel racing experience,

I think there's a huge potential from a driver point of view and from a commercial point of view you can imagine the potential it would have as well.

Patrick Head and Nick Fry came to us with an alternative proposal which was much more in line with what we wanted.

Michael's performance was pretty good given his position early in the running order. We are therefore reasonably happy with his performance. Unfortunately, we had some problems with Rubens' car, which was not as good in the afternoon as it had been in the morning. Now we will have to investigate to see why that happened and hope we can have a good race. It's a shame, as Rubens could have been in a much stronger qualifying position.

We need to find out what caused it.

We haven't given him an ultimatum, but I'm convinced that (Michael) will let Ferrari know his decision between now and June, maybe even as early as May.

We'd like to have him with us, because we believe the Ferrari-Rossi pairing is very alluring.

We need to see how things progress before we make those sort of predictions or scenarios,

We want to do it, he wants to do it, I think it would be a big success.

As to my role in the future, we are discussing that at the moment. I'm very happy at Ferrari, very pleased with the way things are and would very much like to be involved with Ferrari in the future.

This is very frustrating for us. We have had various problems with the engine but we'll get over them. I'm convinced of that.

They have started very well. We saw today that Felipe is going to be capable of pushing Michael and I think that Michael welcomes that. It is always a challenge because fundamentally they want to beat each other but you have to make them work together. And that is the secret; to get them to work together and give them the opportunity to beat each other.

It was obviously very frustrating to have come so close to winning a race but after the season we had last year, we can take a great deal of encouragement from today's performance.

I'm quite happy with the choice and it's really up to him to prove next year whether he's a long-term Ferrari driver or not.

How nice it is to do a launch with the new car running outside, a very pleasant background.

The idea would be to give him a lot of fuel.

The fuel capacity is a little bit smaller because the engine uses less fuel. There is more space in the back of the car because the engine is shorter. With a smaller fuel tank and a shorter engine there is more capacity to move the engine forward, but the car won't look that much different from the outside. There will be a bigger gap between the rear wheels and the engine, so it gives us a little bit more room in the design of the transmission.

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