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ERIC BOULLIER: “BRUNO BROUGHT WITH HIM HIS ENTHUSIASM”

09/09/2011

Bruno Senna had a fantastic start in Spa with a great qualifying performance - what has he brought to the team?
EB: I think his eagerness and freshness is clearly a good asset, a good new value for the team, which we didn’t have during the summer. Now it looks like we are back a little bit and we are in a good shape and clearly Bruno brought with him his enthusiasm. He knows the team very well as he was working very closely with the team since January.

Presumably, that presence since January had made him popular and that is why people are pleased to see him in the car?
EB: Yeah, exactly. He has spent a lot of time in the back of the garage, in the trucks, with the engineers and the mechanics and he was very helpful as well for the race drivers as he was clearly committed and dedicated to help and pushing for the team so the team knew him and was pleased to see him doing well in qualifying.

You have four new commercial partnerships, two of which have Brazilian connections - just talk about those…
EB: Everybody thinks Bruno came with a bunch of money, which is wrong, obviously. The only link was Embratel. Yes, Embratel was a personal sponsor of Bruno and this is clearly linked to Bruno. This is clear, nothing to hide. The two others, or the three others actually, are not related to Bruno. We were talking to them for a long time and the opportunity when we told them Bruno would be racing they just decided to do an ‘mediatic shot’ and use the opportunity to have this ‘mediatisation’ and just go for it.

What are your plans for Romain Grosjean, as there were thoughtshe might be in the car, though may be not from you?
EB: Some people were thinking for me, which is good. I appreciate sometimes, sometimes not. Romain had a job to do to be a GP2 Champion. He is now officially the third driver and we will see what happens to him but there is no plan for him.

So he will come to all the remaining races?
EB: Yep, definitely. As the third driver.

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