Gerhard, last weekend you must have been very encouraged by that performance, Sebastian Vettel's qualifying and Sebastien Bourdais' performance during the race itself.
Gerhard Berger: Everything was fine. It was a good performance by the team but unfortunately we still had a couple of technical problems. When you start with the old car, obviously, that is exactly what you want to avoid. But you can see the team is still small, it is still at the beginning and mistakes are still happening. We had a failure on the drive-shaft and that is why we stopped two laps before the end. Obviously that is hurting a lot and that's some points that we lost. But nevertheless, if someone had told me before we went to Australia that you are going to have one car in the first 10 and one car in the points I would have been very happy.

What about the fact that you are going to have the new car in Turkey or Spain? A new car but that chassis at the moment is having a lot of problems.
GB: We are going to face the problems and try to sort it out.

Do you have to take that car or might you prefer to keep the old one?
GB: Well no, I think that the potential of the new car is better. It is clearly, clearly forward. We just see a couple of problems and we have to work on them.

Will you let Red Bull Racing sort them out?
GB: I mean everybody is going to work hard on whatever problem he faces. Obviously, it is going to be different cars with different engines and different lay-outs, but we will just sort out the problems we face when we run our car.

And the future of the team? Since Australia Dietrich Mateschitz has put out this statement or has been quoted as saying that obviously he cannot build two separate cars, so one team will have to go.
GB: We fix the problem, nobody can afford it. Just put the price up and nobody is going to buy it and we can stay like we are. No, I think obviously, always there are three or four independent teams struggling in F1. It is always a fight. It is a financial fight. It is a technical fight. It is a political fight. Always fighting. But you have to go through this and I have been extremely lucky to have a partner like Red Bull. But it was always clear when Red Bull came in that he is prepared to run two teams as long as he can work in synergies and run two teams out of one technology centre. From 2010 this is going to difficult, a couple of people are unhappy about that, and he says 'I am not going to be prepared to build and compete with two teams.' I fully respect what he is doing or what he is thinking or what he needs to do. And for me the most important thing in his statement was to say that if I sell my part I am just going to sell it if I have somebody the same or better than myself, so that the team's future is secure. Until this moment I cannot say what my position is because I have to see it is the right future. Can we set goals and can we reach goals because the last thing I want is to just be in F1 and running at the back around the circuit. But on the other side if this happens I am totally happy to fight with the team and to fight through and to look forward to good times.

Is there any chance that this ruling that you have to make your own car will change?
GB: I don't know.

Perhaps Martin and Mario, you can throw some light on that? Are you against that ruling?
Martin Whitmarsh: I think philosophically F1 should be about Constructors who design their own cars, but I think it is well-publicised that we take a very pragmatic view. When it looked a year ago as though you could have a customer car in F1 we worked very strongly with Prodrive. We checked back with the FIA before we embarked on that programme. Opinions changed during the course of the year otherwise possibly we would be here supporting a customer team ourselves, so we can't be too hypocritical about that. The reality is we need to have a strong grid in F1. We need independent teams like Gerhard's to survive and I think it is up to the bigger teams and to the automotive manufacturers and the FIA to work together to make sure that we have got a sport that can keep that many teams in it.

Mario?
Mario Theissen: We were right away of the view last year that it would not be a good thing to have two classes of teams on the grid. Teams who go for victory and other teams who just support their number one team, so we are happy about the situation as it is now. Certainly, we support what Martin just said. We need the independent teams on the grid and we have to find a solution for them to be able to compete and to be in F1.

Can I stay with you Mario. A tremendous performance in Australia. Second in qualifying and second in the race. Did you expect to be the main challenger of whoever the top team was going to be?
MT: Honestly not. I was very confident that we would stay ahead of the teams we had beaten last year. I hoped that we were closer to the top two teams last year and that happened. On top of that, Ferrari didn't live up to their standard performance, so this helped us to get onto the podium. But that can change. It can change here already. But still I am very happy about the performance we have shown. In qualifying we saw that we are certainly closer to the front than we expected to be and that shows that the team has done a very strong job in the past six to eight weeks since the launch of the car. We have improved it dramatically, so this is certainly a good prospect for the season.