Q&A - Gianfranco Fantuzzi, Toro Rosso

Q:
We are facing the longest season in the sport's history. How does that affect the l🌱ogistical side of the team?
Gianfranco Fantuzzi:
As you know there are 20 races this year, but be✃cause of the testing ban, we have changed our structure just like every other team, so the race team has to also do all the tests. Therefore, we should really talk about 25 events, not just 20 races. It's a lot of time, a long time away from home. In order to make life easier for the guys, we are trying to work shifts, to rotate the personnel, othe🐎rwise it gets very demanding, on a personal level especially for those with families.
Q:
Has it ওbeen much more com𝄹plicated planning for this year?
Gianfranco Fantuzzi:
Not really, the standard, the template, is more or less t💖he same. There's one more race, which is India and every time you go to a new country it's a little bit more difficult but nothing impossible. It's really the number of events rather than the type of events.
Q:
At the track we will be dealing with KERS. How has the team plꦏanned✱ for that?
Gianfranco Fantuzzi:
KERS is new for us. We were ready to use it in 2009 but we decided not to. There are some safety concerns and safety issues, but we have initiated an extensive training and learning programme over the 🦄winter, going through all potential situations th🦄an can arise when working with this system. Our KERS supplier, Ferrari, has given us all the measures and all the procedures we need to apply and we train at the factory on a daily basis.
Q:
This is the secౠond year without refuelling, so what lessons have been learned regarding pi🐠t stops?
Gianfranco Fantuzzi:
The pit s😼top now is more of a strategic importance than before. Up to the beginning of last year, the refuelling time was covering more or less all the mistakes made when changing wheels. Now you have to be really trained and you have no space for mistakes and every pit stop has to be done with the best performance possible. You lose positions very easily with this procedure in this type of pit stop. Last year, we were not so happy🅷 with our performance in this area, because we were okay, but not particularly successful, so we are training daily since the start of the year to improve.
Q:
What are your hopes for 2011?
Gianfranco Fantuzzi:
Winning? Maybe it's too much, even t🅠hough we never stop dreaming about it. To do our best. To do a professional job and to try to get every little bit out of everything. No mistakes, be very professional and learn race after race, day by day. Sooner or later the results will come.