F. Schumacher Last Quotations

In the last few years, Malaysia hasn't been a good race for us and this year it was the same. I hope and also think that Australia should be more like Bahrain.

Rossi seemed to go pretty well in the tests he has been doing with us but then there is always the question mark: can you do the last little bit and that's always something you have to find out yourself after more experience in the car? I'm not sure he wants to do this or not. I believe even Ferrari would be happy to support him but then I guess it is in his hands if he wants it or not.

We worked very hard, naturally -- because of our misfortune and the mistakes we made in the last weeks -- to make up ground and here we are, and we've made up significant ground. Obviously the race is important -- this is one step towards it -- but seeing where Fernando, in particular, is it's great for us in terms of first strategy and hopefully result as well by the end of the race.

It has been too long ago. Too much time ago. To be on front row and be so competitive is a nice surprise, particularly if you can imagine what happened last year.

With these last few races all coming in quick succession, there was no reason to expect a big change in our performance level,

If you think where we had been last year, if you see what has happened over the winter time and somebody would have told us we would finish second we would be absolutely happy about it.

Last year, we didn't know for a long time if we would manage to get the new car ready in time.

Last year, we came here with some disastrous performance, one of the worst races we had in the year. This year, there is good reason to believe we'll be happy people leaving this place.

It feels great. We had an amazing weekend. We've done a lot of work. We made some mistakes in the last race, very obviously. In general over the weekend we were very competitive.

Luckily this is a circuit where we know from last year that overtaking is almost impossible unless someone makes a mistake.

But I have to say that, after today, I think we look in slightly better shape than we did at the last race. Maybe we are at a similar level to the one we had in Brazil.

We had an amazing weekend. A lot of work, we made some mistakes in the last race and to come here and perform the way we performed...well you can see the result.

We've had various tests obviously during the winter and things have in general improved compared to what was our position and situation last year.

We're very excited to be in the regional tournament. We won't do anything different for the last two games. We're playing for seeding.