Brawn: There Is Nothing Illegal About Our Wing

Dale Calkins

Jean Todt has revealed that Ferrari understand their engine issues and are working on fixing them. The Frenchman is certain that the Scuderia will have all of its issues sorted out by the next Grand Prix in Australia. This is what Todt had to say about Ferrari so far this season:

"It has been a tough weekend because we had to identify a potential risk of reliability on Michael's engine, and a clear problem that Felipe had at the first race, which meant that we decided to change his engine before this race. We changed it again this morning, always trying to take as little risk as possible.

Otherwise the package was quite good, even though I feel we need to be a bit more competitive. Bridgestone have definitely made some progress with the tyres and it's quite interesting to have some other good teams with Bridgestone, because we can see some developments which seem promising for the future.

I think we already did one step forward with today's engine. I think we've understood quite a lot of things. That's why the factory has been working quite hard and it's been positive.

The problem has been around the piston area. We have a specific failure that comes from the component so it's around that. However, sometimes the final problem is a result of different combinations. The new engines were of a different specification. At the moment we are still analysing the problems, before making a final judgement. We need to have very accurate analysis."

March 21, 2006

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