TALKING POINT BLAH BLAH
It took a monumental effort from a significant numbe
parts out to the track, fit them to the spare Power Unit by wo
start from P10 on Sunday without having broken parc f
each of us. But, in the end, we were relieved just to get both
Shortly after his pit stop, we saw some alarming behav
reassuring him that he had a good gap over Lewis and cou
him to switch to a setting that would control the issue.
At the wheel, Nico wouldn’t have had any inkling of t
lap on the penultimate lap of the race, he was still in that ‘s
car had last weekend.
Not long after Nico’s issue arose, we started to see the
was pushing hard to catch Nico and pull away from Kim
Again, we needed to await confirmation from the FIA of wh
asking him to take it easy, the all-clear came to let him kn
With zero – yes, zero! – water pressure remaining for
and still retain second place was truly remarkable. He had
the engine whilst also keeping Kimi at a safe distance, wh
what miracle the car limped across the line – but we’re certa
Ultimately, none of this changes the fact that we have
so far this season. Performance-wise we are right on the m
had managed by the same stage in 2015. But there is wo
bulletproof too.
Not just to manage problems but to understand them
working tirelessly to do just that and will continue to do s
This is a mechanical sport, balancing on the knife edge o
boundaries and failures can happen.