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Mol content with progress

Having enjoyed his first three races as Formula 1 Director of the Spyker F1 team, Michiel Mol is happy with the progress the team is making. He is even more looking forward to seeing the team's B-spec car in action at the German Grand Prix later this season.

Looking back at the opening rounds of the 2007 F1 championship Michiel Mol said: "I think that especially in Bahrain we've seen that we've been making a lot of progress. That was a good morale booster with the four-week break ahead of us, and we could quickly forget the weekend in Malaysia! From this moment on we are testing as much as all the other teams. We've got a test before Barcelona, we've got an aerodynamic update in Monaco, we've got the B-spec car coming for Nurburgring, and the wind tunnel has been revamped. So a lot is happening, and that feels good."

Next on the F1 calendar is the Spanish Grand Prix, where Mol is not expecting any miracles. "Probably we'll see smaller steps at first, and the B-spec car at Nurburgring will be the big step," he said. "We've managed to bring that along a bit earlier, so that's good. We have to wait and see of course, but it looks very good, and we now know that what we achieve in the wind tunnel has the same effect on the real car, so we know that the update will have a positive influence. So all together, I'm pretty satisfied."

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