Laurent Mekies

I'm sure you recall Zandvoort or Budapest or maybe Saturday in Brazil.

So all these successes came with that incredible spirit of the teams there that didn't want to give up.

All the successes came from the massive risk-taking that the team had to take in that short amount of time to turn things around.

So to your point,

When you eventually win, the thoughts are for the incredible spirit of the people and the hard work they've put into it.

But that was easy because nobody wanted to give up.

We thought, and we still think, it was the right thing to do because we felt that turning the page to 26 would have been a little bit of an easy escape and a wishful thinking that next year will be better, even though we didn't fully understand what was the limitation of 25.

We didn't think it was the right way.

Now, of course, the time and energy we invested for the late push last year, does it have an impact on where you start

26, of course it does.

So of course we pay a bit of the price today.

Do we use it as an excuse?

No.

We are not happy with the starting point.

but we think we will get through these difficulties.

We will, as we did last year, we will get the full understanding of the limitations.

And this team has been very, very good in turning things around and we have another chance to do it this year.

We try to do everything we can to make sure this is not a transition year.

Despite the size of the challenge, despite the new power unit challenge, despite the changes you have mentioned, we want to make sure that

we are not in a transition year, Tom.