Allan McNish

Yeah, I'm the racing director of the Audi Revolut F1 team.

And effectively, it means that I'm in charge of everything here at the race.

Principally, it's all of the racing operations being in terms of how we run the car, the drivers, management of that, but also touch into all of our VIP guests and, well, the communications as well.

And so therefore, there's quite a wide array of touch points.

And as you say,

I've been involved in this sport since, one way or another, 1981, when I started karting as a wee boy up in the north of Scotland.

Yeah you're right you know Audi had such a tradition at Le Mans actually and it made a lot of our drivers careers in a way and so Tom Christensen's here this weekend as well someone that I spent many hours driving around that place in the La Sarthe which is next weekend as it turns out so I'm missing it I'm in Barcelona but I've already got the live stream sorted out but I think the

The principles of the way we go racing is exactly the same.

It's with a clear direction.

end goal being winning but with the knowledge that actually it takes time to do that it takes time to build the infrastructure of the team and also against the competition and so having seen this particular program right from the beginning from day one and how it's grown because i've been involved in it with different roles as well in the background of that then i i'm fully invested and fully invested into it but at the same time as well

Yeah, you're right.

And it's a bit like a racing driver.

It's better to start with a fast racing driver and try and tame it down than and also a fast racing car and trying to, you know, iron out the bugs.

And we've got a quick car.

There's no question about it.

You know, Nico or Gabby have qualified up until this weekend, the 11th, just knocking on the door of Q3.

And frankly, this weekend, I think we had the pace to get both cars in Q3.

But ultimately, it didn't happen for other reasons.

But the raw speeds, I think, is there.

When we look at the chassis, medium and high speed corners, it's really, really strong.