Can you talk us through how you got the V10 revs, did you ask for 2000rpm and get beaten down to 300rpm?
Gerhard Berger: It was very clear at the beginning of the season in certain circumstances that would be quite competitive, particularly in qualifying. But over the season the development of the V8 progressed a lot. And in qualifying the V8 could put the extra revs on top of the standard and that put us step-by-step backwards. So it was a clear argument if the balance was right at the beginning of the season, it's obviously not right now. Especially in qualifying and in some circumstance in the race when the V8 can put more revs on. I was hoping to get a little bit more than 300 revs, but the FIA saw the point, but they said 300 revs was a fair step.

Do you think if you asked earlier, you could have got 200 then and perhaps another 200 now?
GB: No, we are quite happy. It's easy to say ‘is it fair, is it not fair?' and at the beginning of the season a lot of people were complaining saying we had a big advantage at the start, but I have not seen that all year. People would say that at certain circuits the V10 would have a big advantage, but we haven't seen it. There were a lot of wrong discussions going on. The FIA did a very good job to find a reasonable balance between the V8 and V10. They've done a small correction now but 300 revs is not going to put us forward. Our calculation is that maybe we will be one tenth quicker at a circuit like this. So it's not going to be a huge step, but it's a little bit.

What about next year, it must be close to decision time, what are the options?
GB: Well we are talking with different people and I think there is no big secret that we're talking to Cosworth V8, Ferrari, Renault – different companies. But what we're going to get in the end, we don't know yet. I think it will take a little bit of time to make a final decision.

Is there a deadline?
GB: Not really. We are not under that much pressure. Of course the engineers would always like to know what they are going to put in, but I still think there is a little bit of a margin.

Mass dampers are now banned, how much of a difference will that make to you?
GB: Well we had it too, but we never really understood it well on our car. We tested it and sometimes we saw an advantage, sometimes we didn't. So we are not in a situation where we got an advantage out of it. I understand if someone has a lot of knowledge and effort with it, that it could be a good step forward. But for us it didn't make a huge difference.

Nick, congratulations on three weeks ago, what sort of effect has it had on the team?
Nick Fry: Obviously there was a huge elation and it was something we doggedly worked towards, I think we always knew we would get there and until you've done it, it's not so easy to say. It's great teamwork and it really is the tip of the iceberg. We are trying to work this as a global effort. We've got two locations in the UK and the R&D centre in Tochigi in Japan. To get quite a large number of people to work together is a big effort, but it's working quite well now and we can go from strength to strength. Everyone has been hugely determined and never let their chins drop. They've just kept working at it and Honda has been very supportive of allowing us to make mistakes, as long as we've learnt from them and not made the same mistakes too many times. So we've had a lot of encouragement and I think we were the best prepared on the day, the conditions were difficult but we did our homework quite well and the execution was absolutely impeccable. Everyone celebrated but it was quickly back to work and we are still very humble. We have won with this team, one grand prix. 72 for Honda and for us at the moment, just one. There are lots of teams who are better than that, but we've got to keep our heads down and hopefully we'll be competitive here this weekend and continue to be for the rest of the season.

Jenson was warning against any optimism?
NF: Yes the conditions fell into our lap. Some other competitors dropped out and I think we had the best teamwork and best car of the day. We might not have had the fastest car, but we will continue to develop the car until the end of the year. So we are not counting our chickens and one swallow doesn't make a summer. We're headed in the right direction and today was another indication that just on a plain dry track, all three cars were pretty competitive. So we're going to continue to work at it and who knows, we might be able to do it again.

Geoff Willis has now officially left the team, will he be replaced?
NF: No, we're not going to replace Geoff in exactly that role, I think like some of the other teams, we've taken the decision to have a much flatter type of organisation and it really is just a global effort and we have a large number of people. Geoff did a sensational job on improving the engineering standards of this team over the last three years, but we see our team and Formula One having moved on into a different era, so we won't have one person. Nakamoto-san will be the technical director in words, but it's more of a co-ordinator role. He'll ensure that our substantial number of people actually work together. It's more of a choreographer's role rather than standing at the drawing board, drawing the whole car role. I know other teams have different approaches on this, but that is the route we're going down.

Frank, interesting choice to have Toyota engines over Cosworth for next year. What about the respective merits of both companies?
Frank Williams: I don't think Cosworth would be unhappy if I pointed out that Toyota have much more development and resource available to them and it does not proceed at a faster pace as the manufacturers engines further up the grid. So we have tagged on with our friends at Tokyo.