There was much less grip out there today than we had at the test, which can be seen from the lap times we are more than a second slower than last week. That meant the car was a bit tricky to drive, but we can fix that tomorrow morning. Overall, I think McLaren probably have the advantage over us but we are where we expected to be.
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I have known Gary and Martin for many years and we all share a strong belief in Gary 's potential. Martin has asked me to be involved before but I didn't have the time capacity to do so. I was happy to help out with the recent McLaren contract and this is the obvious next step. Martin Hines has done a great job for Gary to get him this far.
It was the perfect way to begin the year. We had a very exciting race for the spectators. As we thought from testing, there are four teams fighting to win at any type of circuit - Honda, McLaren, Ferrari and Renault. We can all win races, so it will be a fun time in the coming weeks.
We don't have the quickest car but we're taking the opportunities McLaren is giving to us. Tomorrow I hope to have a good start and can even think to win the race.
I am extremely happy and it is a big day for me. I did a good race, I thought we would fight McLaren but it was not possible,
Honda, Ferrari, McLaren and Renault have been the four big teams in winter testing, and now we must check in the opening races.
I think we have shown that we are a good team and we have threatened a result like that for some time now. Stuart McLaren coming into the side added that extra bit of steel and maturity and I think we have benefited from that.
In Bahrain, Ferrari was our most dangerous opponent. In Malaysia it was Honda and in Australia (it was) McLaren.
I don't know, a lot of things can happen in the next few years. He (Alonso) obviously has a contract but you never know what's going to happen. But I don't have any bad things to say about McLaren.
It will be very interesting. There are four teams fighting for victories at any circuit at the moment Honda, McLaren, Ferrari and Renault, and I think any of them can win races, and this would make the start of the season, especially, very, very interesting.
I just need to get myself into a position where I can secure my best option for the future. I have to look around and see what offers the best prospect, whether or not that is staying with McLaren. When I finally see the option I am happy with, I will take it.
McLaren goes to the net and gets tackled and if that's not interference and this little thing is interference Give me a break.
McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.
It was an interesting start to the 2006 season in Bahrain, which gave us the first opportunity to understand how the new qualifying and tyre change regulations would operate in race weekend conditions, and to gauge our genuine competitiveness compared with the other teams. Of the latter, it was a reassuring race for Team McLaren Mercedes with the performance of the car meeting our expectations.
It doesn't happen very often but I did it. McLaren are much stronger so I'm more than happy, ... I don't care about seven wins. I hope to win many championships with no wins at all.
Tampa Bay The commissioner's office upheld bench coach John McLaren's three-game suspension for his outburst during a game in Boston last week. McLaren, who met with baseball officials Thursday, began serving his suspension Friday. They were kind enough to hear his rebuttal, but they didn't change it, ... We're all disappointed.