The cap is a discussion about competitiveness, not about money. It's about trying to bring the top teams down to a level where the midfield teams feel they can compete. The reality is that whatever the level of spend there will always be teams that run at the front and teams that run at the back.
Times change, things move. F1 used to have customer cars years ago. You could buy a car from March or from Ferrari and go racing.
We need to think out of the box rather than just going round and round, beating ourselves up about numbers.
I have a long-term contract with the team and have said many times that there is only one Bernie Ecclestone. What he has done for Formula One is incredible and in my opinion he is irreplaceable.
A Hamilton-Vettel combination, on paper, would look very attractive to any team. However, what you have to look at is the dynamics of any partnership like that and it's difficult to see how two sportsmen at the absolute top of their game could work in harmony under one roof.
Just taking the front wing and saying that will make racing better, it's quite a naive and ultimately expensive approach.
I think if a driver commits to a team it's like disappearing with another girlfriend half way through the year, it doesn't seem like the right thing to do.
I would hate to see the championship decided on grid penalties.
The drivers are the stars; the drivers are the heroes.
It's so important to come up with the right specification of cars - they need to be loud, they need to be fast.
Red Bull have always been very good at nurturing young talent - Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo are products of that - and it is important with Asian talent that people keep investing in it. There's a massive pool of people, for sure, and the next Sebastian Vettel is out there somewhere.
I have total admiration for the Renault guys in the garage that are working their socks off, week in, week out.
I think too often you see parts being taken from one engine to go onto another... That's been too much of a theme over the whole hybrid era, and that must compromise dyno time, that must compromise endurance running, and so on.
Exxon have done a very good job for us. Their difficulty and frustration has also been that as a customer we get very limited dyno time. But they were able to come up with a fuel that made the C-spec work, and we've managed to get that in the car and run that successfully, when the works team haven't been able to do that.
The most encouraging thing is that with the management changes there have been at Renault, they are very open to accepting that there are issues and they need to improve.
Nobody wants to lose Ferrari. And I don't think Ferrari can afford to lose Formula One.
Sport can change so quickly where confidence is such a big factor.
There are no ultimatums for Renault other than we want to improve as quickly as we can.
We want to run at the front, we want to be competitive and, in order to be competitive, we have to have a sensible power unit.
We want to be a works partner. Ferrari and Mercedes have their own works teams so where would you be in the pecking order if you're a customer?
