September 11, 2004
Puma F1 team boss Dave Cummings finally appeared in front of the F1VWC press following a black, black day for his team over the Belgian GP weekend. The meeting was held at a sunny Silverstone shortly before the team were due to set off for Monza. The main theme was the issues that caused no cars to complete a single race lap:-

David, Wilhelm Frueh didnt qualify - why?

"We found a problem with the rear end of his chassis were the front suspension mounts are fixed, one of them had a very small crack in it, so we didnt want to cause an avoidable accident by sending him out onto the track."

Why didnt he use the spare?

"Well someone not a million miles from here had a slight incident in the lorry carrying the spare and its still in France, and we haven't been able to get the car and spare back, so we are lucky we didnt have any major problems!"

You had a problem on the grid?

"Yeah that little light that came in in qualifying came on again, distracted me and when I looked up I was about to slam into Scott, so i panicked and hit the barriers instead."

You ok?

"Yeah just annoyed at another double DNF."

Your team has been seen lapping and lapping around Silverstone and you have denied the reporters be let in, whats going on?

"We have a lot of changes still to make to the team for 2005 and a driver line up may be made soon. We are testing a new aero package to try and solve our front end problems with the tyres."

Where is Marek Liolias - he hasn't been seen around for some time?

"Well we haven't heard from Marek for quite some time now, so if there is no news by the time the press get this release he will be out of the team as far as I am concerned - this is half the problem with the way the team has thus far been run."

Did we just see Juha Tanskanen drive out of the circuit today - what's happening?

"Wouldn't you like to know? We are in exclusive talks for the remainder of the season after Monza, and for 2005."

You are looking towards 2005 already, what are your aims?

"To be in the points at every event, but realistically I would like to score more points and start really chasing Simsoa."

Why Simsoa?

"Myself and Lawrence speak very often and it would be good to have a team that beat him, just to stop the gloating! Only kidding, we have aims for race wins but that ain't gonna come quickly and therefore more realistic aims have to be met."