Canadian Grand Prix: Marussia’s John Booth Talks About Monaco and Montreal

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Published: June 7, 2014

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MONTREAL — Marussia team principal John Booth is a hot property in the paddock this weekend after his team scored their first points at the Monaco Grand Prix a fortnight ago. 

"It's a very satisfying feeling on Monday," he told me when I spoke to him in the Marussia hospitality area at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Friday morning.

"Go back to the factory and have a glass of champagne with the whole team, and it's wonderful. But then it's straight into thinking about Canada, a different animal of a track altogether. Will we be as competitive here as we were in Monaco?"

That is the million-dollar question right now for Marussia. And not only in Canada—will they be as competitive anywhere else as they were around the streets of the principality?

In the FIA press conference on Friday, Marussia's chief engineer Dave Greenwood said:

Obviously on pure pace alone we’re not going to repeat that result this weekend. ... But the bottom line is if you’re fighting with the cars that are trying to take the eighth, ninth and tenth-place spots, they’re good competitors, so you need to have a reasonable amount of pace to be able to stay with them.

And that is exactly where Marussia was in Monaco. But the team's long-awaited leap into the top 10 was partly the result of upgrades the team brought to the previous race in Spain.

"We brought quite a few upgrades to the Barcelona race," Booth told me. "A different suspension that allowed us to maximize the ride height, new aero parts. But during a race weekend, it's very difficult to maximize all these parts, or fine-tune them."

There was a two-day test immediately following the Spanish Grand Prix, though, and those days allowed Marussia to calibrate their new kit.

When Max Chilton set the fastest lap on the first day of the test, it was largely dismissed because he set it ...
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