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Q & a Session with Martin Whitmarsh Martin Q & A SESSION WITH MARTIN WHITMARSH MARTIN WHITMARSH: Perhaps it's worth saying the geniuses come after me. DAVID CROFT: Well, I thought I'd give you the option to be a genius or not. Thanks for joining us. This is the first time we've heard from you this morning, so we ought to start with the car; what do you think? MARTIN WHITMARSH: Well, it's already been commented on, it looks beautiful. I should probably pull these chairs away, stop hiding it, but -- no, it looks beautiful at the moment, but cars really do look beautiful if they win races. And, you know, the beauty is more than skin deep. I think there's tremendous engineering underneath. A lot of thought has gone into this car and, really, refinement. I'm sure it will look different when it gets to Australia. That's the nature offer Formula 1 these days, we're constantly evolving the product, but I think it's nice, when you're going to have to stand around a car for quite a long period of your life during a year, if it looks good at the outset that helps us. DAVID CROFT: Lewis and Jenson said there's only one goal at the start of the season; is that your goal as well, to win a championship? MARTIN WHITMARSH: Well, yeah, I'm sure it's no surprise to everyone here that our goal is to win two world championships this year. That's what we exist to do. That's what we try to do every year. We don't always succeed. It's a very challenging, competitive series and -- but, you know, we are there or thereabouts. We don't like losing. Coming second the last two years has had it's frustrations. You know, we're proud of some great moments and some create victories in those years but ultimately we want to win and we want to win world championships. So, you know, we're very fortunate. We've got two great racing drivers, who are -- they're good on the stage here as well but they're also good in the car, they're good on the track. They're fearsome competitors. I mean they have -- I think anyone can detect the chemistry, they have a great relationship, but they want to beat each other very badly, but in a very positive way. And I think that spurs them on, it spurs the team on. They talked about the genius that we have and -- the genii that we have in the team. Then we're very fortunate, we've got a very strong team. Some of them will be on the stage later and they can talk to you in a more informed way about the car, but I think it's important that -- that they work, as they have said, with the drivers. It's important we listen to them, it's important they listen to us as well, but I think, you know, it's important as a team that we all listen to one another. We all have views and opinions; some of the team members are better informed than others; but I think we've all got the passion, the desire to win, and I think that, you know, that comes across for anyone, I think, who spends team in this organisation. You know, we expect to win, we have that burning passion to do so. And we know that that's a combination of brilliant team work, great people, inspiration, hard work, dedication, discipline, attention to detail, all those things which are very much part of McLaren DNA, that's what you need to win in Formula 1 today. So, you know, there's some very strong competitors out there but I think we're feeling at the moment that we're in a good place. We know there's a long season ahead of us, we're looking forward to getting testing, developing the car and getting to that first race and campaigning for championships. DAVID CROFT: Just before we open up questions to the floor once again, Martin, on the subject of this season: six world champions, for the first time ever; new race in North America; DRS and KERS hybrid; evolutions of those. What are your thoughts about the season in general? How close do you expect it to be? MARTIN WHITMARSH: It will be close. It's a massively competitive championship these days. There's no doubt about that. No one, in my view, is going to run away with this victory, not us, not anyone else. I think six champions is great for the sport. I think -- we look at the last two world championships, we've come second in both of them, but they've been great championships, they've been exiting. I think development of the DRS that you mentioned, KERS. In fairness, Pirelli contributed a lot to the spectacle. So for a few years I think people were a little bit worried about -- you know, they recognised Formula 1 was the pinnacle of motor sport, it was the most technically advanced, the best drivers in the world, the best teams, but they were a little bit concerned about the spectacle and the show, but I think the last two seasons have been, you know, full of drama, fantastic overtaking, great races, you know, and just a great television spectacle. So we can always make it better. The sport sometimes is a little bit inward looking, a little bit introvert. It doesn't always do the best job of promoting itself. We have perhaps too much cynicism in our sport because it truly is -- you know, there are -- Formula 1 and soccer are the only true world sports. They're the only two. And we can make this sport a lot bigger and a lot better. And it's sometimes a challenge for teams to work together, as we know, because we're trying to compete, we're trying to beat each other on a Sunday afternoon, but we're learning slowly, not always as quickly as any of us would like, but I think we're in for an exiting season. DAVID CROFT: Certainly keep our fingers crossed that that will be the case. Let's take some questions from the floor, please. This man with his hand up straight away, there? QUESTION FROM THE AUDIENCE: Mike Dinson(?). Last year I asked Ron about engines and he sort of discounted the possibility of you building your own engine, but you are a company that aspires to be the same as your Italian rival, I presume in the long-term building a Formula 1 engine is in your plans but have you for the time being put that on one side? What is the possibility of McLaren building their own engine? MARTIN WHITMARSH: Okay, well, firstly, we've got a great partner; we've been 18 years in partnership with Mercedes-Benz. They make probably the best engine in Formula 1, so the motivation to change is very limited. We enjoy that partnership and we intend to continue for a number of years. But I think ultimately Formula 1 is a very, very powerful environment to promote an automotive brand, to get brand exposure and brand differentiation. We have no plans, so it doesn't feature in the short-term, medium-term or long-term, to manufacture our own engines. You know, I think we're not trying to be a facsimile of Ferrari. I think we've got great respect for Ferrari and what they've achieved but I think we've got to do it our way. And a feature of McLaren is that we've had long-term successful partnerships. You know, we've got partnerships on here in excess of 30 years, 27 years. We're very proud of the relationship with Mercedes-Benz. We think we bring value to their brand, we give them good exposure and good competition for their own team, and I think it works for both of us and I think we'll stay like that for the foreseeable future. In the longer term then, as I say, we have no plans to develop our engine. People will speculate because of our road car programme but at the moment it makes no sense to us. DAVID CROFT: Next question please. Joe Saward was fractionally ahead. Martin, if you don't mind standing for this question -- not because it's Joe, but for the cameras? QUESTION FROM THE AUDIENCE: Martin, you were talking about strength in depth of engineering before. This winter you've been selected by other teams as a place to enlist a lot of your people. How much of an impact has that had or can you soak up that kind of loss? It's big numbers of people, isn't it? MARTIN WHITMARSH: Not big numbers in the total sum of it but we have lost some people. Our people are attractive to our competitors. That's a compliment. It might be a frustration when it happens, but it's a compliment; it means we've got good people, what we're doing and how we work. I think we're quieter about how we go about our recruitment, so we do, of course, recruit very good graduate engineers that we develop and train within our business, but we also periodically dip into some other teams, and I think at least one of them will be on stage a bit later.
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