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Spyker aiming for bigger gains during season

Spyker will be playing it safe at the start of the new season aiming to establish a good baseline from which to make bigger gains throughout the year, technical director James Key has revealed.

"We're taking a reasonably conservative approach at the start of the year to allow ourselves to make bigger gains at a later date," said Key. "We don't expect to go out there and make a massive step forward straight away. Again, longer-term planning has come into play, with Spyker being on board and Mike being here. We're following some of the philosophies we set up with the M16, but we're improving them. And obviously we have a new engine installation, and we have to do all the cooling. So there will be quite a few visual changes."

Spyker is also getting to grips with the Ferrari engines it will use next season.

"We've been over to Maranello a few times for various meetings, and they've been very accommodating and very flexible," Key added. "They understand that our time scale has been short because of the relatively late agreement, but they've understood that situation and been very supportive. They are a huge, championship-winning team, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but it's been very good."

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