Gascoyne looking forward to improved season next year

The Brazilian Grand Prix will mark the end of the Etihad Aldar Spyker Formula One Team's debut season in the FIA Formula One World Championship. After a stable, if unspectacular, start to the year, the team has moved onwards and upwards throughout the season; it has led one race, introduced a new B-spec car and scored its first point at last month's Japanese Grand Prix.

"It has obviously been a very difficult season. We've been compromised on development of new parts by financial circumstances, some of the development such as the wind tunnel has taken much longer than we expected to get up and running, but we have ended the season a high, with the B-spec car scoring its first point and new owners who are very committed to moving the team forward. It's a big well done to the team for all their hard work after a difficult year. I hope we can now look forward to an improved season next year."

"I think we have made a good step forward with the B-spec. We knew it was never going to be enough to take us to the top, but we now have a lot more resources to put into development, particularly into aerodynamics. We have shown very clearly that we know what we are doing and when we put parts on the car, they improve performance as expected. Over the winter we can now get our heads down and get on with this development and by the middle of next year, I think we can expect to be truly competitive."

"The wind tunnel programme started last week in Brackley. It's several months later than we would have hoped for, however with Aerolab working alongside our own tunnel, we will have significantly more resources than we have had in the past. With the introduction of the B-spec, we have shown we know how to move the car forward and with these new increased resources I think we can be very confident about the future."

"I think we will run lower levels of downforce in Interlagos due to the series of main straights and in general every time we have run the car in lower downforce trim we seem to be more competitive. Sakon was very good in Brazil last year, it's a track he knows and likes, and although it's a new track for Adrian, we should look to finish the season with a good, competitive race."