Ayao Komatsu
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Then in terms of putting people in the right place, like Andrea being technical director for me, that was absolutely no-brainer.
He was a clear choice for me.
Then having certain people in certain positions and a slight
reorganization in terms of structure so that this communication is almost forced.
It has to happen.
This closed loop has to happen.
So it's just, you know, putting people in the right place and slightly restructuring that really sort of like supports what we're trying to do.
So initially, obviously car comes from, let's say, factory, right?
You know, so the truck side team is largely a user.
So our, let's say, fundamental problem was that car wasn't competitive.
But now we reorganized those technical people in Italy that we can produce a decent car.
Then it was pretty clear operationally at the truck side, we are not getting best out of the car.
We are not providing a good enough feedback to...
designers, aerodynamicists to improve the car.
So then we really needed to refresh our truck side team.
And the reason we did it last year was of course we knew that 2026 would be brand new regulation.
You know, you cannot or you can, but I didn't want to make a wholesale change on the truck side when we have to deal with a brand new regulation.
So for me, the last year was the correct time to do it.
And then again, it just