Thursday, 1 October, LIUZHOU (China): Abu Dhabi team principal Guido Cappellini is upbeat about his 'new charges' and the way things are panning out at the season mid-term. "This is effectively a new team coming together and I am more or less happy with results," he said. "Unfortunately in Evian we lose 20 valuable points which is very bad for our championship so now we are trying very hard and pushing for the best results.

"Every race we are making changes, improvements and at the next race we will have a new boat and we will test new solutions, new propellers.

"My relationship with Alex and Thani is very good, the team is working very well and the atmosphere in the team is very good. We are of course looking for a good result here in China. Normally Alex is very good here, very fast and as long as we have no technical issues I hope he can be first. Thani is also looking good but has not had too much time in the boat or to test. So we shall see."