On Max Mosley and the International Automobile Federation's efforts to cut costs, and whether that is really possible:
Well I think most teams will just spend the money that is available to them to do their job. And I think you will see some bigger and flashier and more expensive motor homes in the paddock. Not with us, I have to say. Although obviously we’re always trying to smarten our act, the actual hardware is the same. But I think, certainly, all of the team principals agree - despite the fact that one or two of them fought the initial thing quite hard from going to qualifying engine, race engine, to having one engine per race weekend, to then having to do two race weekends with an engine – in truth I think Max was right and some of the teams were wrong, including us on that. That is a big saving of money.But I have to say that although it’s technically very interesting for the engineers, I’m certainly doubtful whether this stored energy – it’s certainly going to be very expensive – and whether it’ll be good for Formula 1 as such…. And some of this further development with energy recovery from exhaust and cooling systems, I think that’s going to be extremely expensive for the manufacturers. And I don’t think that they will feel that it’s money well spent because I think that they are already working like mad on their road car engines and they don’t need Formula 1 to show them. I think the technical challenge is for them on the road cars in efficiency. And I’m not sure they’ll be that pleased to have to not only commit so much financial resource to trying to do a not necessarily comparable thing in Formula 1. But also to occupy some of their brightest engineers on the Formula One efficiency program, whereas in truth, those engineers probably should be working on the road car challenges they have.
But then, one has to be careful, because we criticized Max on the longer life on the engines, about the homologation of the engines, and he’s probably turned out to be right.
