Adrian, how much influence are you having on the current car at Red Bull Racing?
Adrian Newey: Really, I'm just lending my experience from previous incarnations. Obviously the car was designed before I joined. I got involved a little bit in the cooling problems that the car had at the start of the season, and a bit in the set-up and so forth, but my main concentration is on next year's car and generally putting systems into place for the future.

Is the pace of development with the current car quick enough to make up positions?
AN: It's the usual thing. It's difficult to know because you don't know exactly how quickly everybody else is developing. Formula One – it's the old cliché - it doesn't stand still. We're making progress but so is everybody else.

Do you feel you can move forward?
AN: I don't think we'll be winning races by the end of the year, I'm afraid.

Would you regard this year as a bit of a holding year, then?
AN: Red Bull is obviously a team that is arguably either in its second year or quite an established team, depending on whether you look at it as Red Bull or Jaguar. It has a lot of new people. I think that as is often the case, there is a settling down period. Last year's car was, I think it's fair to say, a slightly inherited car from the Jaguar days. There are some very good people there, and I think we have the basis of an extremely good team but it's going to take time for everybody to develop the relationships and embed into their new positions.

Certainly David Coulthard was saying yesterday that's why he would like to stay with Red Bull because now's the time it's all beginning to come together.
AN: Well that's good, isn't it.

Sam, the team seemed to have slipped a little bit since the start of the season, although having said that, you had a good race in Monaco. Are there aerodynamic fixes in the pipeline and developments?
Sam Michael: I wouldn't have said we have slipped in terms of performance. We've had a lot of reliability issues which have come about through various changes in the place. But performance-wise, we've been within the top four teams on all lap times throughout practice and races since the start of the year. We obviously had a very competitive car in Monaco as well so I don't think you can say that was slipping in performance. The main thing at the moment is to make sure we get on top of our reliability problems. There's two or three different areas that have been affected and we're in the middle of hopefully stamping those out. Unreliability is never a good thing but it does give you a very clear area to tackle and solve. It's quite difference to performance when you're dealing with five or six different parameters. It's always very difficult to gauge what you're good at and what you're not compared to the other teams. So that's the main area that we're focusing on at the moment.

It has been suggested, as I mentioned to Mark yesterday, that the Toyota deal is done and dusted. Is that something that you're looking forward to, moving on with a factory engine?
SM: I can't really comment on that. Williams haven't decided what engine we're using in 2007 and it's not something that any decision has been made on and I can't comment on any deals with other manufacturers.

Could you put into perspective the job that Cosworth is doing at the moment?
SM: Cosworth is doing a fantastic job. Because of the change from V10 to V8, it basically reset the base line for everybody. Although they had two or three problems during the year in the races that we've done so far, I think everybody's had their fair share with new engines. So far I would say that they've really done a good job. They're a fantastic group of people to work with, really good bunch of engineers, and I think that the latest rules have probably enabled them to get on terms with some big manufacturers, so yeah, they've done well.

Ross, Bridgestone seem to have made a step forward in the last test at Barcelona. Is that something you envisage being carried forward to the future races?
Ross Brawn: It's not a specific step. They've been making good progress all year. I think last year we saw that we weren't competitive enough. A big effort was put into a redesign of the tyres and that was helped when Williams and Toyota came along because they were able to contribute to that, so really the big step was over the winter and now we have a better foundation and there are much more productive incremental steps going on all the time. At Barcelona there was a new compound which we are running here. The construction is still the same. But Bridgestone are making very good progress and I think it has been helped with the addition of Toyota and Williams to the input. We are now able to go testing and be reasonably comfortable with Williams carrying out one programme and we carry out another programme and Toyota carry out a third programme and then we can put the information together. So the test programme is much more broadly based and I think it gives Bridgestone more confidence when they are getting information from two or three clients.

Michael had a pretty torrid time in Monaco for whatever reasons; have you seen a change in his mood since then?
RB: He's a pretty determined guy always, but I think his drive in Monaco, after all the events was exceptional. What went on affects people in different ways, but for him, it seemed to make him even more determined. That's where he seeks solace within the team and in his own performance. If it's possible for someone like Michael to be even more determined because he's already extremely determined then I think he is more determined to try to do well in the near future.