Quotes Roundup – Week Ending 25th October

The very best from the mouths of those in the know.

Champion Celebrations

The praise pours in for our new champions…

• “It’s car 22 for the second year in a row, two English champions in a row, two Mercedes engines winning in a row and the second time that they champion scored the points he needed by finishing P5 in Brazil.” Norbert Haug, Mercedes
  
• “I grant them the titles because if you only look at what they have been through you realise what an incredible story this is: just one year ago they did think everything is over. I am extremely happy for Ross who I know since such a long time now, he deserves this success.” Michael Schumacher
  
• “I saw him in parc ferme before he came out, I gave him a squeeze and he locked onto me like a limpet. I could not get him off. It was unbelievable. He was screaming and crying: ‘I am world champion’. That is all it was. No other words at all.” John Button, Jenson’s father
  

Jean Todt: FIA President

The elections are over, now it’s time to see what happens…

• “I like action, I like to make things go forward and I am really happy to see that so many countries chose me but everything is yet to be done. The day the election is over, everybody must share the same goals, including those who did not support me. I am not closing the door to anybody.” Jean Todt
• “FOTA is looking forward to supporting him to broaden the appeal of our sport among fans and sponsors while respecting Formula 1’s great heritage to which he has contributed enormously.” John Howett, FOTA vice-chairman
  
• “I’m against who said we must change it at all cost. Not everything needs to be binned. We need constructive change. What was true ten years ago isn’t true anymore now, for both road mobility and for the sport.” Jean Todt
  

Williams Look Ahead

The team prepare for next year…

• “Ross Brawn and the team showed that you can make an engine change on Christmas Eve and still produce a pretty competitive car but I don’t think our design office would thank us for doing that and they will have a little longer than that to design the car around the engine.” Patrick Head
• “Nobody has done any work that I can see to show that there is space to accommodate 14 teams, 28 cars. No one has discussed that, neither the FIA nor anyone else. Look at where we are now in Brazil. You couldn’t possibly get 28 cars and 14 teams here.” Adam Parr, CEO
  
• “We had a very good relationship with Toyota. We made a decision about two months ago that we wanted to go in a different direction and I think the reasons are not for public consumption. We haven’t had any falling out so it’s an amicable parting.” Patrick Head