Laurent Mekies

You know, Yuki is doing a great job with us, not only as a reserve driver, but also as a simulator driver.

It's great to have somebody that has such deep, recent experience of the car that can help us behind the scenes.

Of course, we wish for him that there is an opportunity that comes soon, because racing drivers are meant to race, and that's what we wish for Yuki.

And, you know, we are conscious that...

We haven't been as strong as we would have liked in the past in terms of the second car performance at Oracle Racing.

And it's something we are taking the learnings.

We are trying to improve day after day.

And it's fair to say that Yuki has shown significant speed in the past.

And we wish for him that another opportunity comes along the way.

Only looking at the sporting aspect of it, no, without judging the gravity of the events, of course.

But it's clear that it's been, you know, such a short winter for the team with the new power in it, again, with the new regs, that the chance to regroup is certainly welcome at that stage of the season.

If you add to that, well, the fact that, you know, competition is ahead right now, so we are the fourth team right now, and therefore...

that time to go deeper into the data, to go deeper into the root cause of where we think the gaps are coming from, and to have a chance to slightly alter the development route to catch up quicker.

We think it's an opportunity.

I think it will be...

It will be a bit like a second season launch when we are back to the track in Miami, because of course, every team is engaged into this massive development race.

So you will see every car on the grid changing significantly with upgrades in Miami.

So

we will only be as good as we are relative to the others.

And it's going to be a new starting point and one that will certainly start to give indication about where the season is going.