Post Malaysia GP

What can I say, the car is slow, but we have the best driver in the world and a team who knows how to win, it will take time and probably a bit of luck.

From an IT point of view, we had a difficult time in Australia but things were much improved in Malaysia. A very good job by our new support person, I believe we focussed on the right areas over the winter, so I hope (and expect) we will give the team the reliability they need.

The IS guys have done a great job over the winter with developments on multiple fronts. We are now a much more integral part of the running and analysis of the car

On to Bahrain, where not a great deal of difference can be expected on the track, all the teams are focussed on the first European race, Spain – TOMA!

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Post Australia GP and Dubai trip

So the year is underway, I can’t believe how much time has passed again since I updated my blog.

I missed the race on Sunday. The first time I have missed the first race of the season since I started watching F1. The reason: I was doing a keynote presentation at an IDC CIO summit in Dubai. It was a really good trip and Virgin Atlantic were as usual – excellent.

The Middle East is an exciting region to work in, a huge amount of investment and growth, most of the global companies are in Dubai. They have some infrastructure issues with their WAN links, but it wont take long for them to sort that out.

Australia was a good race for the team, 4th for Fernando is an outstanding result. I made the point at the IDC summit that you need performance and reliability but sometimes reliability can compensate for performance (but only if your competition are not reliable!). A reliability issue for Nelsinho after a really fast start was to say the least unfortunate

And so we look forward to Malaysia on the Easter weekend. We can’t be sure what our season will pan out like until after Spain (probably). 2007 season is dead, as long as we do better than that!