F. Schumacher Work Quotations

The result shows that work pays off and that the effort put in by everyone has delivered its reward.

Nobody expected this and now that it's there we will work very hard to fight back again. It's not a big surprise and that's the way it goes. It is honestly a surprise it did take that long before it happened.

Its been a long time and hard work to get here. An amazing result, the whole winter we seemed to have a good package but then you wait for the final confirmation here.

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 was nice to take control early. We put on a 2-2-1 press and it worked well. The girls executed it really well.

It was not the outcome we were looking for. We have to work even harder to bridge the gap before the end of the season. We would like to score a win before the championship ends.

Performances like that of that weekend are not our objective. We have to work hard and prove that we are competitive in all conditions, and not only in specific ones.

I want to congratulate Fernando and his team. They have done a great job and from a personal point of view it is nice for me to see some of the guys I worked with at Benetton looking so happy.

I was sadder for the actors than I was for me because when you do good work in this industry, you get more work. Colin got a whole career from it.

They have done a great job and from a personal point of view it is nice for me to see some of the guys I worked with at Benetton looking so happy,

That was a very tough race. The timing of the safety car period worked to our advantage early on and we were in good shape. We were quick in the conditions, everything was going well and the strategy was well defined. Then we just decided to go onto dry tyres too early. It was a very close decision, but we took it together and we got it wrong.

I made some errors and on certain things we didn't work together as best we could. It woke everyone up a bit. It's normal though after winning five consecutive years.

Unfortunately weather like that means that this will be a hard weekend for all the teams. Obviously it makes it very difficult to pick which dry tyre to run ? if we ever get a chance to run on dries this weekend. It makes tomorrow busier, too. We'll have to go out in the wet eventually. There have been no wet races yet this year and at Toyota we haven't done much testing in the wet either. So we'll have to wait and see how it works out.

I congratulate Fernando and the team on winning the title. They have done a great job over the season. I saw a mechanic who worked with me before and he was close to tears. It was moving to see him and it's nice to see how they are happy.