John Noble

We've already got the first, not big crisis happening, but first inklings that, you know, things...

But if McLaren didn't have the F-Duct and were so quick down the straight, then Red Bull could well have left the race to play out.

Yeah, maybe 20 seconds out of the road.

And then it'd be a much, much easier life.

I remember the start of that race, the two Red Bulls and two McLarens thinking, this is a powerhouse for Grand Prix.

You've got four top drivers gunning for it, really close victory, different strengths and weaknesses.

And Red Bull had a fight on their hands that potentially hadn't,

anticipated and with the mclaren f duct advantage it compromised what it could do later on because in f1 you're not in full control of everything you can have all your plans all laid out perfectly and another team's ready to scupper it and this is the the beautiful dynamic of formula one that just when you think everything's in your hand someone can take it away from you

Yeah, I think it becomes a negative force.

If you obsess over the issues that you aren't in control of, if you start thinking that things are deliberately happening when they aren't necessarily deliberately happening, it's just the way things are rolling out, then you aren't concentrating on making yourself quicker.

Every minute you spend worrying about things going against you is a minute you spend not concentrating on what you can make better or how you push on.

And I think it's a trait, you know, maybe it fed through a little bit to Oscar Piastri last season in terms of that post Monza fallout with papaya rules.

And who is his manager?

Exactly.

You just start feeding into the negatives and it plays on your mind.

And I think the greats can have these explosions and get them sorted out, but they don't let it linger or they bring it up and get it out into public straight away.

Just as Seb Vettel did, look at Multi 21, for example, and came astray afterwards and absolutely went public on what he felt and why he did it and all this sort of thing.

You don't let these little things fester.

And I think Christian was trying to balance out a lot.

It was very complicated, even throughout the entire Horner-Rebel period.