James Vowles

I looked them in the eye and said, this is what we need to do.

And it will be a challenge because we're a long way back.

But I'll be by your side whilst we go on to win championships.

Simple as that.

It was a commitment both ways.

The interesting part is when I came through the door, it was probably a little bit, there was a little bit further behind in some areas than I expected, but we will still get there irrespective.

I'm very confident of that.

Ah, poor.

Poor would be a polite way of working it.

So we challenged our ways of working across the board.

How we design, how long it takes to design, how we push projects, the level of detail that we're going into, how many different concepts we're going to evaluate, how do we evaluate those in an efficient way?

There was a large scope of work around it, which meant that we couldn't put much focus in 25, but we did...

Irrespective, still bring performance to the car in the form of ways of working or some of the longer-term projects that actually gave some lovely benefit last year as well at the same time.

And otherwise, we just told the team and the drivers, get on with it.

Fifth is possible.

Let's go.

So great job by Carlos, Alex, and the teams.

So back onto 26.

We had a bit of a bumpy winter.

We didn't pass all of the required FI tests in the time period we needed to as well, which added additional stress on what was a very stressed program already.