After having their backsides handed to them at their home event by Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, smug Brawn GP CEO Nick Fry has vowed that the team will be able to bounce back to the front for the next event in Germany.
After having the first seven races much their own way, Brawn saw Sebastian Vettel take pole position at Silverstone and then follow it up with an easy win on Sunday, with Mark Webber making it a Red Bull 1-2. Meanwhile, the Brawn cars finished a distant third, with Rubens Barrichello, and sixth with championship leader Jenson Button.Nevertheless, Nick Fry believes that the main problem this weekend was the BGP001's suitability to the track, rather than any great gains from the Red Bull team, and believes that the team will be in a position to fight back in the German Grand Prix in three weeks time.
"I hope he can win in Germany and the Nurburgring will be much more suitable for our car," Fry said, almost certainly whilst smiling smugly, "In terms of mechanical performance, our car is very strong and that comes into play in Germany.
"I remain as ever optimistic. It's a great team performance, that's the important thing and what makes a great team is where you haven't quite got the speed but you can still come up with some good results. A year ago, third and sixth we'd have been dancing from the rafters."
Fry also questioned whether the Silverstone result would herald a long period of Red Bull dominance, with Brawn playing catchup and trying to stay in the hunt with points finishes.
"I wouldn't see it that way," Fry argued, not seeing it that way, "We've always looked at the whole season as a combination of races where you think you can win and races where you need to consolidate. We came to both Turkey and Silverstone knowing that the Red Bull was likely to be the stronger car because of the characteristics of the circuit and they have very good high-speed aerodynamics.
"Turkey we were very pleased with the result, here clearly we are not pleased but we think it's a good result in the context of the championship."
Meanwhile, in Red Bull's camp, boss Christian Horner warned his troops that they will need to keep up development, even with the introduction of a revolutionary new car for this weekend, the "RBR5-B", if they are to catch up in both championship.
"The team is doing a great job," Horner gushed, "We are putting performance on the car every weekend, and I don't see any reason why we can't keep the momentum up going into the future races."
On whether his team was now ahead of the Brawn team on development terms, Horner simply said that: "Well we haven't overtaken them in the points yet so when we've overtaken them in the points then yes."
The teams now have three weeks off before the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring.
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