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Christian, Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner of Red Bull, says he's only going to stay on for another three years; does that threaten the future of the two teams? Christian Horner: Certainly Dietrich is a very young 62-year old, he's a very active guy and obviously heavily involved in the Red Bull business and across its global marketing platform. Formula One is a key part of that strategy. His commitment to Formula One is for at least the next five years, which is the length of the new Concorde or FOM agreement, so I think in the short term, it certainly won't have any affect on our plans or aspirations and Formula One is something that's key to the marketing goals and ambitions and targets and we have a medium and a longer term strategy which is the foreseeable future, so I don't see it having any direct impact and three years is a long way away.

What do you think you've achieved this year with Red Bull Racing? CH: I think that this year has really been about consolidation. We changed the technical group and a lot of factors within the company during the last twelve months and really this year has been a settling down period with that group coming together, working cohesively and it's obviously been a slightly frustrating year on circuit. We've had issues that took a little bit of time to get on top of and ultimately some time ago, we made the decision to really focus all our attentions behind Adrian and what will be his first Red Bull car next year. There are a lot of good things in the pipeline and I think that this year we've really consolidated where we are and that group is now working together as a cohesive unit and I think we should start to see the results of that, hopefully in Adrian's first car for us next year.

Looking ahead to next year, there are a lot of possible changes in the pipeline in Formula One in other teams, so would you expect to capitalise on that?

CH: Formula One is an extremely competitive business and we were up against some formidable opponents, but I think we have a strong technical group, we have good assets within our facilities now. We have a good driver line-up for next year, all the core ingredients are there. That doesn't obviously guarantee an instant strike rate or instant success but I'm certainly a believer that this is a people industry and you put the right people in place, give them the right support and hopefully results will follow on from that. Patrick, busy day for you, a new sponsor announced for next year.

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Patrick Head: It's obviously good in terms of partnering with a big company like that; it's obviously good financial assistance for the team and we obviously both… in terms of a very variable and generally rather poor performance and then added to that, very poor reliability on average this year, it's quite tough persuading people that they should invest in your future and so it's encouraging that that should happen in that environment Then Alex Wurz set fastest time this afternoon; there's a rumour that you've got a 20,000-rpm engine this weekend; did he have one of those engines?

PH: No, the Cosworth engine - as has been the case since the beginning of the year, although there was a period that we were held back a little bit when they had a small bearing problem - but it's always been capable of revving to 20,000 rpm and obviously when Alex ran at the end of the session, he was running fairly low on fuel and new tyres and running the engine in its highest mode, but we will see times a lot faster than that tomorrow. Q: And a reported technical department re-organisation within the team; can you tell us about that?