Ayao Komatsu

accepting and understanding that okay we are very young team here this trackside team is young we lack experience so again there's lots of support required from all sorts of directions but as long as we accept that this is why we're doing it we have to go through the pain together then we have to put ourselves in a better position for this year and next year and i do believe that even though we got a young team at the trackside i think we got good people so it will come

yeah that that was a very very difficult moment you know because bar in testing as far as we are concerned went pretty well you know so we thought car was decent we didn't see any huge issues then come to melbourne here in the high speed screen car just wasn't performing when i first saw the data i thought ah okay it's a fast couple of laps drivers just taking it extremely easy but then when i realized

Oh, you know, that is the limit of this card.

And when I realized the extent of this problem that we only saw here in Melbourne, FP1, honestly made me feel sick.

Because like you said, it wasn't just a tenth or a few tenths.

It was like six tenths.

it was bad.

Then it's not something we anticipated whatsoever.

So it was a surprise to us.

But of course, initially it was a shock, right?

But then you had to quickly come to acceptance to say, okay, we've got a huge issue here.

Then first step is to really to understand what the issue is, what the core problem is.

Then agree amongst the senior engineers at least what the problem is.

You know, if you're

arguing about what the problem is.

No, no, this is actually not the problem.

This is the issue.

That is the issue.

That's not good, right?

So first step is to align everyone.