Australian GP – “So much to do for drivers”

Seb analyses the new season ahead
“I don’t have my crystal ball with me so I can’t predict how the season will be. What I can say is that our main competitors are still very strong going in, but we do believe we’ve got quite a bit closer, especially in race conditions. How close, though, is difficult to say. Our target is always to win and to do so we’ve got to make a step forward. There are so many new and unpredictable things this year, the qualifying format for instance. I hope in the end the quickest can still get on top, as is the nature of this sport. And hopefully we’ll have as many cars on track in the end for the fans to watch as we used to have in the past… Also, there will be much more to do for us drivers this year with the driver-radio limitations. It’s wrong to think that until last year we were ‘controlled’ by the engineers, but these cars are so much more complicate than they were in the eighties, when there were no radio communications or they were very poor. So if you took the radio out and gave us manual gearboxes, I still believe we’d be less busy than we are now!”