Laurent Mekies

You know, at first, you're right.

It's the biggest regulation change probably in the history of Formula One, at least in the modern history of Formula One.

And it's also on that very same year that we chose the, let me say, crazy challenge to go and build our own power unit.

And if you do that, you want to partner with the best.

And we are in a lucky position where we have managed to strike this strategic technical partnership with Ford.

in this crazy adventure of building from absolutely zero our own power unit, and we go together in these new regulations.

Look, they've been helping us on many different topics, and that list of topics is expanding every day.

But let me give you a couple of practical examples.

James' team have unique advanced manufacturing capabilities that we use to produce some of the most critical parts of our engine.

And not only are they able to...

manufacture this part for us, but also they do it in less time than we would do otherwise.

And that gives us a crucial, you know, our business is a time to market business.

We call it a time to raise business.

And when we are able to manufacture complex components in a short amount of time at this incredible level of quality that we are looking for, that's a key competitive advantage.

You will have to bear with us a little bit.

The scale of the challenge is monumental.

We have started to design and build these engines in what was a field.

We've made the factory, we've bought the dyno, we've put together an unbelievable group of people and group of partners such as Jim and his team.

It will be foolish and naive to think that from the first day you are going to be at the same level than people that have been doing it for 90 years.

So bear with us.