A Brawn insider spills the beans

Very interesting piece on the Guardian site today, quoting a Brawn team 'insider' talking about how much faster the car is capable of going than we saw on Sunday.

It's interesting because Ross will not like this very much at all. He didn't get where he is today by giving anything away and this gives a bit too much away.

That said, it does deflect attention away from the diffuser, suggesting, as they used to do in Brawn's Ferrari days, that the thing everyone thinks is the key to speed, isn't and that the key lies elsewhere.

"I think, basically, that if someone is two-tenths off us they can feasibly win the race but, if we're half a second in front, which is probably where we are at the moment, although we don't necessarily look like that, it is just foolish to just annihilate people all the time."

I posted on this before the race and it makes sense, you never rub people's noses in it in F1, that kind of behaviour will always come back to bite you.

"I think we have a little bit in the bag. We've got good stuff coming and I think we have reason to be confident."

"The visual bits are not really the performance drivers, it's all the surfaces you can't see that give you the real performance.

"One of the good things about the Brawn car is that competitors will look at all of it and say, 'That's the bit that's making it fast.' But it is not necessarily one thing; they could be focusing on something that is not really a big performance driver."

"We were looking at everybody else's times asking why were they all so slow. Our research was telling us we would be the quickest car."