James Vowles

And it allowed me to do so every single day.

Actually, I think also the moral of the story, and you absolutely just embodied that, is the following.

You are going to fail every day of your life.

It's going to happen.

What you do with that failure defines you as a human being.

You can either throw it away and ignore it or choose to have it front and center and make actions as a result of it.

And actually what you described there is absolutely my culture, which is failure is a part of life.

Accept it, but change as a result of it.

I loved my time at Mercedes.

They still are today an incredible outfit.

And I was part of a really strong senior leader group.

And it was a pleasure working with Toto.

He was an exceptional, still is exceptional human being to learn from.

Toto and I had really honest conversations about what my future was, what my direction was.

But he also had an honest conversation that he's very happy in that position, team principal, and frankly, the best at what he does up and down the pit lane.

And it meant that there was, of course, a job for me.

But my future really, for me, if I'm going to forge it, I'm going to have to go elsewhere and do that.

That wasn't the direct conversation we had.

It was more letting me know where he was in his position.

He would invest in me and grow me as much as possible.