Ayao Komatsu
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So then the fact that that was positive gave us even more confidence, like, wow, yes, initially it was terrible that we missed it somewhere along the development of 25, but once we accepted we missed it,
It's no point crying about it, right?
So that's happened.
We just, how are we going to improve from here?
Everybody focused on that.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
I still remember that Melbourne or last year, 12 months ago, very, very well because none of us left much, right?
You know, of course, here at the truck until curfew, we're looking at data and then we're trying to understand what's going, go back to the hotel, now doing a video meeting with the guys back in Italy because Europe wakes up.
So we're just working around the clock, you know, using the time differences because we just didn't have any time to waste.
It was very, very tough.
I don't wish that I want to experience that again.
But looking back now, I can say now, because we solved it, that probably the challenge we had to overcome as a team, as a group of people, that really made the team even much, much stronger.
It was brilliant.
And also the confidence.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
I mean, I'm very, very grateful to be given this opportunity and also the trust Gene had in me.
Of course, it was a huge risk for him, right?
I'm not some sort of a known quantity, done a team principal job somewhere else before, but he...
His judgment was that he only chose me because I was here from day one.
I knew the people.