Damon Hill

A, that generation of car that we've had since 2022, the ground effect cars we had until the end of last year, they just were unsuitable for the way he drives.

And there was no getting around that.

And his muscle memory was clearly not able to overcome that.

to overcome that so that there was that but then as he transitioned to Ferrari he found that they developed a car which had systems that he absolutely hated so he's actually in a worse situation that he'd been in in some ways than at Mercedes because they developed a car around a lot of engine braking to get the rotation in the car and he doesn't drive it like that he has he hates engine braking and um

So there was two components to it.

So, yeah, of course, he was under delivering in that situation.

He got two fundamental pieces of the equation weren't there for him.

But then that will create doubts when you're not doing the lab time.

You'll think, well, how much is that and how much is me?

And I think he's had...

fortuitous change of regulation to a more compliant car that's much more tolerant of his sort of very hard braking style.

And he's pushed for changes.

He was pushing for changes all through last year.

And Freddy Vasseur has delivered them.

And I think those things have come together.

And you just saw his...

confidence sort of progressively increasing until I think it was probably Montreal where it was really visible, where, you know, between the walls.

And you thought, wow, yeah, this looks like something like Hamilton used to look.

And then he's followed it up.

And then, you know, the Barcelona win was from the top draw.