John Noble
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It's the biggest thing.
Put them in an environment where they realise, put it into context, go and see these kids, speak to their families, understand what a small insignificant thing F1 can be at times.
And I think he did quite a good job in diffusing the situation and keeping it under control, at least until Multi21.
I think managing drivers fighting for world championships is probably the most difficult challenge any team boss faces if they're both going for it.
If you look at the Mercedes, the biggest crisis points between...
Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton were post-collisions and how Lewis, how Toto was able to deal with it and the lengths he had to go to keep a lid on it.
His concerns, you know, some periods when Valtteri was looking very competitive and races were playing out and some orders from the pit wall not necessarily being listened to in the fight for wins and the fear of escalation about these things going, because you're talking about, you know, marginal differences between teammates deciding a world championship and
Decisions made in the thousandth of a second, they're impacting things.
You can't preordain every single outcome.
And teams are based, you know, your development plan, upgrade plan, spending plan.
Everything gets laid out brilliantly and perfectly before a race.
But split second decision on circumstances you don't expect can blow the whole thing out of the water.
And then you've got to try and manage it.
And then you're trying to over...
Over-analyze tiny little decisions that... Then you create papaya rules.
Yeah, and then everything spirals out of control.
And also, as I think we'll come onto on McLaren, sometimes decisions are made that people view as being deliberate when they aren't actually deliberate.
It's just the way circumstance...
I think it's always one of the fascinations of Formula One is dealing with these teammates.
And I've no doubt Toto is going to have some headaches even this season with Antonelli and Russell.