A question to all of you: the 2008 calendar has been released; what are your feelings about it and the lack of a US Grand Prix?
Aguri Suzuki: It's OK because our sponsor is not the United States and is very important in the Asian market or something like that. But Formula One is very important in the United States because it is a World Championship of Formula One. But otherwise the rest of the calendar is OK.
Colin Kolles: We are basically happy with the calendar. It's unfortunate that there isn't a race in the USA but it isn't up to us.
Flavio Briatore: Very happy. I believe that if you have the USA, we need a proper Grand Prix. Sure, that is not Indianapolis. The logistics are not great. If we do something in the future in America, I believe in doing it in the right place with the right advertising, the right commitment from everybody and make sure people know we're there.
Christian Horner: It's disappointing to lose a US race. It's an important race for us. For Red Bull it's our biggest market, so hopefully it won't be too long before it's back on the calendar. Otherwise the new calendar looks good with Singapore, with the new Valencia street race. It's going to be an exciting season.
Aguri, how has your team developed over the last year; has it grown, what has happened with the team?
AS: Of course, but it depends on the budget. So I am trying very hard and my staff is working very hard as well and just now I am making plans for next year. Of course, the team has to grow. It's very difficult to say how much it has grown but everyone has been working very hard.
Is the intention to build your own car for next year?
AS: Of course. Yes.
Have you everything in place for that?
AS: Yeah, sure.
What about the drivers? The performance seems to be a little bit up and down.
AS: Yeah, because Formula One is very difficult and we are a very small team. We try to get a good result at every race but it's very difficult, many very strong competitors, all trying very hard. If something happened in Spain or Canada, which was a very tough race, or something like that, we can get some points or a good result, but if it's a normal race, it's very difficult.
Colin, we've seen three drivers in one of your cars over the last three races; just give us a rundown how that happened?
CK: Well, obviously this will be the last one because we are not allowed to make any more changes as far as I know. Our young driver programme will probably be finished with Sakon. Well, the situation with Christijan was clearly stated, there's nothing more to say about it. We couldn't find a replacement that quickly, so we put Markus in the car for his home race, it was his home race. We reached quite high publicity, good PR and we will finish the season with Sakon.
Presumably what you're waiting for are the future developments on the car for Turkey.
CK: We will have this so-called B-spec car in Turkey. It's very difficult to have it tested because it's really very tightly scheduled. We tested the rear end and the gearbox at Silverstone last week and we had no issues.
So you're quite hopeful of... how much of a step forward?
CK: I don't know. Let's be surprised.
