Highlights

Schumacher revels in breakthrough

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-08-01 09:16

Symonds agreed that not having them had cost the team some performance, and hoped for a dispensation to run them in Hungary next weekend pending the appeal, but Renault's difficulties were a combination of factors.

"I'd rather be in a better situation but we're not a team to panic," he said.

"We've already managed to learn a lot through that race and even in the hour we've had to analyse it afterwards, a few very obvious things have come up. I'm sure that by Tuesday night there'll be a lot more.

"I wouldn't say that we'd be completely out of everything by Hungary, but we've learnt so much today that we can get back a long way in, in just a couple of days."

Brawn suggested however that Ferrari and their partners should take the credit for the turnaround.

"We have had a lot of momentum in the last few races... we had some very good steps on the cars a few races ago which didn't necessarily show straight away because we weren't quite on top of the tyres," he said.

"Some of the biggest steps on season that I have ever made with a team, we made in the last few months with Ferrari.

"We had a new rear suspension here, some developments on the suspension a couple of races ago," he continued.

"On every front, the guys at Ferrari are doing a fantastic job of developing the car."