Sunday October 24rd, 1999

Following Ferrari's win on their appeal yesterday, Michael Schumacher vowed to help teammate Eddie Irvine win the Formula One World Championship at Japan next weekend. "I'm very, very pleased with the decision that was made in Paris," Schumacher told reporters, from his home in Switzerland. "I'll do everything I can to ensure that we have the same success in Japan as we did in Malaysia. We can do it again in Suzuka. I will help Irvine and the team. Now the world championship will be decided on the track at Suzuka, as it should have been all along. And Ferrari has the chance to win both titles."

Irvine, in Tokyo, said he was also looking forward for the final showdown at Suzuka. "It's fantastic, the news coming through that the team was totally exonerated," said Irvine. "That's what I really wanted, for the team to be totally exonerated, because I didn't want people to think that it was political, it was business, or any of that sort of carry on that got us reinstated. It was a pure technical matter that the car was legal all along, which is fantastic."