For all of you, what is your reaction to the announcement regarding the guilty verdicts being cancelled for the United States Grand Prix, as came out from the meeting the other day, now confirmed by the FIA?
Flavio Briatore: I think it was great and really the teams did a very good job and now the FIA understands it was a Michelin issue, not at all to the team, and I want to say Ron Dennis did a great job for everyone because he negotiated with Max (Mosley), with the teams and the result was the teams were not guilty. We did not race in Indianapolis and now we know why we did not race, because it was unsafe for the drivers and that was the reason. We were not racing for that reason only. I am very happy about that.

Mario Theissen: I am not representing one of the teams affected by the verdict but it clearly fits with our view of what happened in Indianapolis. We think the teams couldn't do anything different than they did.

Ron Dennis: I think catalyst and ambassador is a new experience for me but I was very happy with the outcome and I think that the interests of Formula One was the outcome and the reason why ultimately the decision was arrived at that the teams were clearly not guilty of the remaining two offences. I think it is better for everybody. Nobody came out of Indianapolis with anything positive and perpetuating the negatives was clearly not constructive to Formula One. I am delighted that the Senate and the World Council have held that way too.

Paul Stoddart: It is good for Formula One. The most important thing out of all of this is that Formula One is a sport and we need to get on with the sport. It was the right decision and I am glad it was made now and not later in September and hopefully we can put that chapter of Formula One behind us and move on.

Again, for all of you, we got the impression we would be hearing from the manufacturers this weekend with a list of announcements about 2008, what is the situation?
FB: It is simple, we need to work together for the future of Formula One and our working group will put some proposal together. We have the proposal and we need to sit together and work together. Every part must be working in the same direction and the manufacturers put a lot of effort in that and it is logical that we have the same view for the future because stability is very important for Formula One. We are business people and we have a lot of money invested in the business and a lot of people working for us. We have a very economical reality and it is a question of the long term and I believe the manufacturers and the teams together can put the best efforts possible for doing what we want to achieve for the future and then see our rulers.

MT: I think the cooperation between the manufacturers and the independent teams on the future of Formula One has been exceptionally good so far, it has exceeded my personal expectations. We are about to put together a very good framework for the sport which can be released soon, we will talk about this over the weekend again and I don't know yet if we will be ready to disclose it right at the end of the weekend but it is coming and I think it will be very positive.

RD: Everybody has a common objective, which is to have a better Formula One. I think that probably the most contentious issue that will emerge will be the economics of Formula One versus the regulatory or sporting aspects, and when you see everything that is currently in the system from whatever source there is a remarkable level of commonality. That remains to be discussed and those subjects that we need to come to a common opinion on are probably less than 25 percent of the whole, as it were. So I am optimistic that we will
come to a position where all the stakeholders are looking forward to embracing a 2008 season that will be, to the best of our ability, better than those seasons that we have had or those seasons that remain under the current agreement.

PS: Back in January 25, I think it was, we advised the FIA, we being nine teams and Bernie Ecclestone at that point, that we were going to do a lot of work towards putting together a framework for the future. We have stayed with that but we were then joined on February 16 by the five manufacturers and since then a group of nine plus five has worked and put enormous effort, some teams an unbelievably large amount of effort, to put together something that will put the sport and the fans into the future in a stable and professional way and we are now ready to present that to the FIA and FOM in the coming weeks, and I think that is the beginning of a united Formula One, at least I hope so.

Paul, your new drivers, how do you feel about them, are they going to be stable now for the rest of the season?
PS: Double Dutch! I think it is the first time in modern Formula One that there have been two Dutch drivers in the same team. I was extremely pleased this morning. Robert had never driven the car, he had only sat in it for a seat fitting. He is not new to Minardi, he drove for us last year in testing at the end of the season, but it is always hard to step up from a test driver into a race seat at short notice and I think he did a credible job today. Christijan had a bit of a problem, he came together with Fisichella and lost a bit of time in the second session but he put in a pretty stunning time for a Minardi, so overall I am pretty pleased.

Do you think there is going to be a certain amount of internal rivalry?
PS: I think it will be good. A lot of the Dutch press have been asking that very question but I think the guys will actually feed off each other and I think we will see a slight improvement and we will probably get 110 percent out of each of them at every event, and that is what we want.