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The Importance of a Test Driver
When you took over Salbo, did you try and get Montoya and Ralph Schumacher to come with you? I think Montoya was already engaged at McLaren at the time. Ralph had made it clear to me that he wanted to go to Toyota when we still were with Williams. The situation was, Jacques Wilnove was there already. He still had a contract for 2006. And I was keen to take along Nick Heidfeld, who used to be with us at Williams in 2005. So it was clear that we would start with Jacques and Nick. We needed a test driver again - Sebastian Satter from BMW. Robert Kubica didn't have a winning car, but he