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2005 British Formula 1 Grand Prix
What the teams and drivers said - Sunday

Team and Driver Quotes following the Race

(selected team quotes, for a full team and driver report click on the team name)

McLaren Mercedes ( Juan Pablo Montoya - 1st, Kimi Raikkonen - 3rd )

RON DENNIS
"I think today's results speak for themselves. An outstanding performance from Juan Pablo who worked hard to generate sufficient gap to Alonso prior to his final stop to ensure his race victory, which of course he achieved. Kimi's third place reflects his poor starting position resulting from a penalty he suffered following an engine change on Saturday. Nevertheless he set fastest lap and with 80 points available mathematically both drivers still have the opportunity to challenge for the Championship."

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Renault ( Fernando Alonso - 2nd, Giancarlo Fisichella - 4th )

Flavio Briatore, Managing Director
"To leave Silverstone having seen Fernando extend his lead over Raikkonen by two points is a fantastic result for us. The team put in an excellent performance this weekend, and we never thought that the car would be so competitive here. In my opinion, Fernando missed the win because the blue flags were not being shown enough to the backmarkers, but this happens sometimes. McLaren were very competitive today, Renault was too, and I think we put on a good show."

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BAR Honda ( Jenson Button - 5th, Takuma Sato - 16th )

GIL DE FERRAN, SPORTING DIRECTOR
"Jenson drove very well today in front of his home crowd, getting the most out of the car and bringing us a few more points. Clearly we needed to find a little more pace today to finish higher up than we did. We will continue to develop the car during the Jerez test next week before the August break, in an attempt to close the gap to our competitors and we will continue to make every effort to do so until the end of the season. On Taku's car it seems that he made a mistake and hit the wrong button on his way to the grid which cut the engine. After that we switched his strategy to a one stop and he was able to lap consistently at a very good pace."

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Ferrari ( Michael Schumacher - 6th, Rubens Barrichello - 7th )

Jean Todt: “I said yesterday that we could expect a difficult race and that getting both our cars home in the points was our only realistic target. Unfortunately, that is how things turned out. We are not capable of matching the pace of the leaders and the final result is a reasonably accurate reflection of the current pecking order here at Silverstone today. The only satisfying point to take away from here is the level of reliability we demonstrated this afternoon.”

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Toyota ( Ralf Schumacher - 8th, Jarno Trulli - 9th )

Tsutomu Tomita - Team Principal "That was a tough race for just one point for the team. We did well to get two cars home to the finish, but the race was spoiled by our pace in the early stages when we struggled and just lost too much time. That is a similar problem to the one we faced in last week's French Grand Prix. So we have to analyse why that is happening and try to understand it, because certainly in the second half of the race we were much more competitive. The cars were on slightly different strategies in the second stint with Ralf stopping later so they were both pushing very hard to gain the position. That was the time that Jarno had to back off for blue flags for the leaders and that unfortunately decided the battle in favour of Ralf. Now we must move on to the next race and hope for an improvement."

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Sauber ( Felipe Massa - 10th, Jacques Villeneuve - 14th )

Peter Sauber (Team Principal): "We did not score any points today, but that was not really possible anyway given the performance of the top teams. Jacques might have been in contention but spoiled his first pit stop and fell some way back, while Felipe's strong performance enabled him to move up from 16th on the grid to 10th, overtaking both Williams cars and the Red Bulls."

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Williams BMW ( Mark Webber - 11th, Nick Heidfeld - 12th )

Sam Michael (Technical Director, WilliamsF1): Both drivers did get the most out of the cars today. We had no reliability issues, both stops worked well as did the strategy. From here we will go back to the factory and investigate how we can make improvements to the package and our performance.

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Red Bull ( David Coulthard - 13th, Christian Klien - 15th )

Christian Horner, Sporting Director:
“It was a tough afternoon. Both drivers took different strategies, but we struggled for consistent pace here and, despite the drivers’ best efforts, they were not able to progress through the field. The handicap of Christian running first in qualifying and of David missing half of the fourth practice with an electrical problem definitely compromised our qualifying positions. Here at Silverstone, track position is everything as overtaking is not very easy.”

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Jordan ( Tiago Monteiro - 17th, Narain Karthikeyan - Retired )

ADRIAN BURGESS, SPORTING DIRECTOR
“Poor Narain, again he did not have any luck in the race. As always, he was doing a fantastic job keeping up with Massa, until we had an electrical failure, which shut the engine off and forced him to retire the car. Tiago was on a different strategy as a result of an engine change earlier in the weekend. He had a great race and was able to bring the car home, for the 11th race in succession. We are now looking forward to the next race and will try to work harder and give the boys better equipment.”

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Minardi ( Christijan Albers - 18th, Patrick Friesacher - 19th )

PAUL STODDART, Team Principal
“I don’t remember the last time 19 cars completed a Grand Prix, and while a two-car finish is always pleasing, it’s clear more development is required on the car.”

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Bridgestone

Hisao Suganuma – Technical Manager – Bridgestone Motorsport “After promising signs earlier in the weekend of a strong race performance I am disappointed with today’s results. The Ferrari cars were running near the front of the field but not really able to challenge the leaders. Monteiro has now completed his eleventh consecutive race and both Minardi cars crossed the finishing line which was good to see but we do need to go away with the data and information from all our teams today and see how we can improve things. We need to keep pushing our development forward. Track temperatures were a little higher today than earlier in the weekend but that was not unexpected.”

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Michelin

Pierre Dupasquier, Michelin motorsport director
"This has been another perfect weekend for us, just like Magny-Cours. There were no real surprises this afternoon and our partners' race pace underlined the performance advantage the Michelin teams have enjoyed all weekend. Silverstone is a challenging track at the best of times and today's high track temperatures made it even more gruelling, yet Kimi Räikkönen was able to set the fastest lap of the race right at the very end. There could be no finer testament to our tyres' durability and performance."

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