Damon Hill
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make up the deficit of a car that's not quite the best car, and you can sometimes drag results out of it that it doesn't deserve, you are, by definition, driving more on the edge.
So by definition, you will have more errors.
And I think it's absolutely nonsense to say that that's a trait, that he's an error-prone driver.
He's not.
He's a driver that has spent years pulling results out of a car that didn't quite deserve it.
And that ability to drive it on the edge is what's enabled them to do that.
But that will sometimes bite you.
And I don't think that's a deserved criticism.
It's just an approach.
Well, it's a notoriously politically volatile place, isn't it?
And the team principle is always under enormous and ridiculous pressure, really.
And it's something fundamentally flawed about the structure at the top of the team that the team principle is always under this amount of pressure.
And it was quite feasible...
say, a year ago, that Vasseur wouldn't be retained.
And we were hearing rumours that it might have been the WEC team boss, Coletta.
Certainly Christian Horner was approached.
So it wasn't that they've stuck by him and had 100% faith in him.
It's almost like there was no ready-made solution that wanted to come.
So he was given...
an extension a period of grace and that's enabled him to do what he's just done and that the whole giving Hamilton what he needs was very very much part of that campaign of his to give what he thinks the team needs and so he's sort of