David Keat

And, you know, for Williams not to be a bit quicker is absurd.

If Alpine can be that quick, why Williams?

That's one point.

Cadillac, they've got Ferrari drivetrain, Ferrari engines.

They build a car around the regulations as defined by the regulations, but should it be that slow?

Aston Martin, they've got all that money, all those people.

They've got Adrian Newey.

Why didn't anybody go over to Japan in last April to make sure that Honda were on the right track in terms of everything they wanted to do with the engine?

Bearing in mind, McLaren made the mistake of not keeping on top of Honda when they

first returned with honda engines and everybody should have learned with that but it seems that nobody in aston martin actually had their eyes open and thought that through and they just let honda get on with it and the engine arrived and it's a massive vibration but that would never have happened if there'd been a sort of aston martin enclave built alongside the honda factory in japan and they were managing it along the way that would not have happened

It seems ridiculous.

If it was my team, Lawrence Stroll, he should have been out in Japan setting all that up.

Well, I haven't changed my belief that he is an extremely good...

race car designer I don't think that he has the all round eyesight peripheral vision whatever you want to call it to be able to imagine the things that can go wrong because he's lived in a world where things like that

being sorted out by other people at red bull by christian horner and others real racers uh ron dennis if you like at mclaren in his era and and frank williams and patrick head when he was there and i think at aston he just obviously assumed that those things would be sorted out by other people in the team and he would focus on the car and now of course he realizes that he needed to spoon feed everybody and it's too late because now the cars

know it is what it is but i mean there was a guy called andy cowler he's still there he was team principal at the time when all this was happening he's an ex mercedes engine guy you know why didn't he realize that he needed to be out in japan keeping on top of honda it's not a difficult thing to think through and that's why when you ask me you know why are some teams not able to adapt

it's it's not that complicated i think they just over complicated a lot of the time and there's so much money at aston martin there's so many egos flying around obviously because of the money that everybody's tripping over themselves that's what it seems like to me i mean you could also argue why didn't fernando alonso get this sorted because i mean he went through that whole honda agony with mclaren he would have known that the important thing is to keep on top of honda

But I haven't changed my opinion that he's still an extremely good car designer.

But I think you'll see Red Bull starting to flex their muscles as well and Max...

As I say, I'm pretty sure he's going to win some races.