Carlos Sainz

And now the development war will start soon.

Are you and Alex Albon, your teammate, are you in agreement as to the way forward?

I would say so, but it's unfortunately for Alex and me, we have a higher power, which is MGP and HPP, which will decide a bit the direction to go.

But if we can influence that, my opinion, HPP and MGP should listen also to what Alex and I have to say to experience clever, you could say we like thinking also and coming up with good solutions and they should use us to

to find the right way because it's like having four drivers in your team, not only two.

Yeah, I think, honestly, if there's one time to be a bit closer and united to develop this PU and this...

gear shifts is now more than ever.

And then as we all become more competitive and everything is sorted and drivability and everything else is ready to go.

And it's like last year that we didn't even think about them.

We didn't even report anything because it was perfect.

Then everyone, every man for himself or everything for themselves.

But now that we need time to develop, I think all these guys that use a bit the same PU, same systems, the same gearbox, we need to

We need to help each other because there's a lot of work.

And when I say a lot of work, it's a lot of work to do.

Yeah.

In general, James likes being involved and it's great to have a team principal that also understands.

He likes driving himself.

So when you talk to him about a downshift or when you talk to him about drivability, he gets it because he's...

an amateur but a driver himself and um and he he likes it he's also an engineer so he's a bit of a hybrid you know between driver and engineer more of an engineer let's say but also a bit of a driver and i think it's always cool sharing a good conversation with him did you give him any advice before his race in abu dhabi at the end of last year he did a endurance race didn't he you know was it mclaren i think it was a mclaren

Oh, we had just been there driving a Formula One, but an F1 is so different for a GT car that I couldn't give him much advice.