Q&A: Brawn getting the best from his parts

Ross Brawn, the Mercedes GP team principal, explains his team's improved showing at the Korean Grand Prix.

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The Korean Grand Prix was your team's strongest for a while with Michael Schumacher an impressive fourth. What was the secret?

Ours has always been a reasonable car in the wet, but we had time to make a few suspension changes during the rain stoppage and that paid off.

The car looked decent in the dry, too, even though you have suspended development in order to concentrate resources on next year's chassis. How do you explain that?

I think we're simply getting the best from the parts we have got - we've been making everything work well. We're getting a better understanding of how to set the car up and in truth it's just a matter of consolidation.

Will this improved understanding help you get more from the 2011 car?

It might, although I'm not sure anything will translate directly.

There have been rumours about you perhaps attending fewer races in future. Are you paving the way for your successor?

I just think it would be good to spend more time at the factory, to be honest. When you are so involved at the track it's hard to devote energy to the factory, where we have a lot going on in terms of developing the organisation. I'm not going anywhere for a few years, though.