By Various sources
March 30 2009

Furthermore info compilation, courtesy of AFCA

- Baldisserri on the diffuser: ''We will have to review our priorities, we'll be forced to introduce it. It's not easy. It will be necessary to redesign the whole rear end. It will be very, very difficult to be ready with that for Barcelona on the 10th of May.''

On catching up: ''With the radical changes in the regulations that have been introduced and with the necessity to concentrate on the 2008 title fight we lost out on 4 to 5 months of windtunnel research compared to the others. It's the area of an F1 car that counts for 80% and now it won't be easy to catch up.''

''In Malaysia it should go better. There the tyres don't wear off as much. Here in Australia we struggled with the soft tyres. In Bahrain they worked, here they didn't. But as things stand now our performance is inferior to that of Red Bull and BMW Sauber. All in all though Brawn GP didn't humiliate us. In qualifying with a lot of fuel we were 1.5 seconds behind them, during the race this gap wasn't there. In fact, I think that if it wasn't for the incident Kubica would have gone on to overtake Button. We've thought of a lot of things to enhance overtaking, but to me it seems that the real show has been produced by the differences between the two types of tyre.''

''The balance of the F60 is good, but the car is not fast. KERS gives us some more power, but if the car isn't doing well then it's not of much use.''

''Let's admit it: we're in much greater difficulty now then we were at the start of last year.''

Tombazis is more optimistic: ''To catch up it will take a smaller effort/amount of time than one might expect, eventhough we have to work 360° in several areas: reliability, aerodynamics and performance.''

- Schumacher on Brawn GP's success: ''When you're aware of wintertesting and the story behind the team then it's no longer a sensation. But they've risen like a phoenix, they were nowhere last year and now they dominated the first race. You can only grant that Ross. He's done a superb job and I'm happy for him.''

On Barrichello's poor start: ''Rubens was a bit optimistic there. He wanted to make up for his bad start. That's understandable but you know things can get very tight in the first corner in Melbourne. It's better to back off a little.''

On Brawn GP's chances on the title possibly being bigger than those of Ferrari: ''That's not impossible.''

On being in Australia and also flying to Malaysia: ''The main reason for me being here is that the organisation has changed a little, there are several new people in several positions. That's why I'm here and that's why I'll also fly to Kuala Lumpur, which is a good connection from here. For us to soon move forward, I hope to be able to take the right decisions together with our guys.''

On the new regulations: ''The FIA comes up with regulations that make for really big differences at the start, but then the many engineers that every team has start to concentrate on it. Then in no-time there's not much of a difference left.''

''We have less aerodynamical grip and more mechanical grip. That's helpful for overtaking but the difference probably still isn't drastical enough.''

''Out of safety reasons the cars were to become slower but that objective hasn't really been achieved.''

- Race control on sending out the Safety Car after Nakajima's crash: ''We didn't have the intention to send out the Safety Car at all. The message from the track side was: 'everything under control'. Then we suddenly we saw a crane truck on track. Therefore we had to neutralise the race for safety reasons.''

When Mayländer came out he had to look for race leader Button. Stupidly enough he had just gone past. That's why Button had to make up an entire lap and the Safety Car had to tell all the other cars to get passed to do the same. Only when that was done the lapped cars could be picked out and sent forward to unlap themselves. It simply took too long.

- Howett on Toyota's speed: ''I think we need two to three races before we can really assess the balance of power. Brawn GP was impressive, but our laptimes were pretty competitive when we had a free track. I already look forward to the first race in which we qualify higher up the grid because I think that we were actually faster in qualifying than the times suggested.''

On KERS: ''We need more time to gain time over a lap with KERS. Others clearly have a different opinion. You see though, that KERS brings something at the start and that the KERS-equipped cars are able to better attack and defend themselves on the straights.''

- Horner: ''The car definately has the potential to win races. We seem to be best of the rest, but unfortunately for a third place there are no big prizes.''

Marko: ''We now have an engine that is homogeneous and a driver that steps on it. Up till his crash Vettel had a sovereign race. It was stupid action from both of them because Vettel's tyres were gone and Kubica must have seen that, after all he gained ground om him by 1.5 seconds each lap. He would have easily gone past whilst accelerating in one of the corners that were to come. Then Vettel would have certainly become third. Kubica should not have tried to attack and Vettel should not have tried to defend.''

Marko will ''obviously'' have a word with Vettel, ''but he knows what he's done wrong anyway.''

The talent spotter highly appreciates Vettel saying sorry over the radio: ''I find it very good of him that he doesn't look for excuses when he does something wrong.''

On debutant Buemi: ''He was sensational. I had to fight very hard to get him into the car, but now all the experts know that it's been the right decision.''

''He didn't make on mistake the whole weekend, eventhough he was under great pressure during the race when Rosberg was behind him. I'm really satisfied becuase he's the youngest driver of the field and he's another driver from our Junior programme.''

Webber: ''We've showed a lot of potential, no question about it. Now it's only about getting everything right.''

''My leg is fine. It's very bumpy here but it didn't cause any problems. That's very good.''

- 2003 British Formula 3 champion and former BAR/Honda testdriver Alan van der Merwe has got himself a new job: this year the South African drives the Medical Car instead of Alex Ribeiro.

Van der Merwe jokes: ''I promised my dad to be on the grid of a Grand Prix one day. And here I am !''

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