March 05, 2002
The team is a little disappointed with the race result after we saw what we where able to do in qualifying, but we will fighting back starting already in two days in Spain where we are going to participate to the test.

I can say that the management of Honda told us they where happy with our performance, but they know that there is still a lot to do and have confirmed to us that they already starting to improve the engine and the reliability of it.

The teams #1 driver commented:

""Well...this was what we had expected, to be honest. We had some major problems, which are already known now. We made a false start at the beginning of the championship [qualifying], but we will strike back in Malaysia.

I made a good start. Too bad the Hernj-Roaldo's were blocking me in an unfair way, which cost me some places. I will talk with them about it later on. But besides that, the car was not good, our set-up was not good, the tyres weren't good. So finishing 9th is a little miracle, I would say.

We must now focus on Malaysia. I don't know the track at all, so I think we will be less competitive there than we were here. But that doesn't matter. Euhm...if the car doesn't improve at all this season, than we are chanceless, and if I am chanceless, I will quit. But we shall see how the tests will go. We have a testdriver, I hope he will do a good job, because I am not going to test at all between now and Malaysia. We shall see how things will go. One thing is sure:

My season starts in Brazil!"