Inevitably if you are successful Formula 1 staff are attracted by other teams offering them good deals. At the moment I am not aware of any senior members of the engineering staff that are leaving.

In order to achieve our objective of winning races and world championships we have to employ the best drivers available and Gary definitely fits into this category.

It was an interesting start to the 2006 season in Bahrain, which gave us the first opportunity to understand how the new qualifying and tyre change regulations would operate in race weekend conditions, and to gauge our genuine competitiveness compared with the other teams. Of the latter, it was a reassuring race for Team McLaren Mercedes with the performance of the car meeting our expectations.

Technical difficulties are not unexpected on the first outing.

We would like to be Vodafone this year. Discussions are going on at the moment.

We need to keep the momentum going and do a better job than Renault over the remaining five races. However, we are aware that Renault need to make some errors.

We feel that the MP4-21 is the best car we've ever produced.