At the recent WilliamsF1 FW28 launch Mark Webber spoke to the media in regard to a range of topics. Here is what he had to say.

Q: Patrick Head has said that you had and the team gave each other a mutual bollocking last year. Has it helped clear the air?

Mark Webber: "It is good that we were honest with each other. There were things that we could improve on both sides and I think we saw the performance change a bit from both sides in the end.

I still feel there were a few races, like Silverstone, where the performance was not there from the car and I absolutely totally drove my balls off and it was the same as Suzuka but if you lose one second a lap then you can't see it.

The incidents were not there with Jaguar and last year there were a few incidents and I am not about that. I want to be a consistent operator and performing at the front as often as possible and sometimes you have to cut your losses.

Every dog has his day and you have to take the battle to another place.

Q: How difficult was the divorce from BMW?

Not that difficult I don't think because it was pretty inevitable. I think technically it started to kick-in in terms of the shut-out mid-season, what we were doing with the chassis and they with engines despite the regulations changes and so on.

Resources slowed up a little bit like traction control electronics and that sort of stuff so that was as far as it went. The soldiers on the floor were fantastic guys, absolutely brilliant. I got on with Mario Theissen, but in the end they wanted something new.

Q: Do you see the 2006 season as a crucial year for your career?

Every year has pressure in Formula 1, we know that. I would love to go out and win a race soon otherwise I could end being called Tim Henman.

The first year I went to Jaguar, people said Antonio Pizzonia was going to kick my arse. I did that and proved myself at Jaguar and then Williams liked me, I went there. It didn't work out last year, there is no question about it.

Sometimes you learn a lot in adversity. If you are going out and kicking arse in business everyday you are probably not learning as much as you do if you are on the ropes.

I learnt a lot last year and I want to have my best season in F1 this year, no question about it, to have had three seasons being there or thereabout is not good enough.

Q: Would you rather have had a proven team-mate to measure yourself against?

I was very disappointed when Jenson Button didn't come here I wanted him to come to Williams as did Williams but in the end he didn't want to come so he is staying at Honda.

Nico Rosberg is a brilliant signing, he has just come out of GP2 and had a fantastic year, he has tested well for us, did not make any mistakes so he is solid. He is going to be good and you have got to give the guy some wings to come in and have a crack at it.

There will be weekends where he will give me a hard time.

Q: You want to have your best ever year, but how confident are you in the new car?

Very. In terms of the work that has gone into the FW28 at Valencia, the trust and the work and the whole thing that has gone into the last six, seven, eight months were all for the 2006 season. We hope the fruits of that effort will roll into the start of the campaign.

You just have to look at the grid and who we are up against. It is going to be really, really tough and but we are not sitting back and saying we don't think we can compete.

We want to be in there. Honda will be strong. Ferrari. And Renault. McLaren might he having a bit of trouble with their engine but you've got Red Bull, and BMW and then hopefully us.

I don't want any lucky results. I don't want to be handed anything. You want to be earning your results because you deserve them and that is where we are.

Q: Patrick Head talked about scoring wins plural in 2006. Is that possible?

We are not interested in lucky results so to go out and drive off the front row and win races will be impressive, very impressive, considering who we are up against but there is no real reason why we cannot be strong.

Cosworth have done a fantastic job with the engine, Bridgestone are working hard with Ferrari, Toyota and us to bridge the gap that was there last year, although there are totally different tyre regulations.

It is down to us to do a better job than the other teams. It is quite possible that we can have a very, very competitive package. But we will only know when we get to Bahrain, with proper track temperatures.

Q: Juan Pablo Montoya says he thinks Bridgestone is ahead of Michelin in the tyre race…

It is amazing. All the Michelin guys are saying that… Fernando and JPM. I think they are putting pressure on the Michelin guys and we still see it the other way. I think it is a bit of propaganda.

Q: How hard will it be for Valentino Rossi to test against you guys at Valencia?

He is quite brave really to come in and share the circuit with the rest of us. So far he has been in a controlled event in Fiorano. The guy has got unbelievable talent and he definitely knows which way is up.

He has always surprised people so who knows how he will go. The main race drivers and the guys who have been racing for a while are normally not that keen to have guys who don't have that much experience but the way we were always warned before we go out and we know if they are out there they have the flashing light and things, if someone is going to be new.

But It is not like when we had this guy in Budapest last year, the Israeli, (Chanoch Nissany) because that was a joke. For him that was like playing Pete Sampras at Wimbledon in the first round.

Q: Do you think Michael Schumacher will retire this year?

The guy is a legend. We know that. He is a phenomenal driven individual but I think if he has a rough season this season it will be his last year.