Liam Lawson

And then...

We went to China and it was sprint weekend.

I'd never driven there and it was just the same kind of thing, trying to just make up for...

lack of preparation and just mistakes, like little mistakes.

And last year it was, you know, you mess up a corner, you're out, your lap's done.

It wasn't, you had to put a lap together.

You couldn't, when it's more separate, you can kind of get away with little mistakes here and there, especially when you have this year of energy making such a big difference.

When last year it was that close, you had to put it all together and I just didn't do it in either of those two weekends.

And that was it.

Then there was a race in China.

We'd spoken about basically trying something quite wild on the car to get some comfort for me, but also because the team, at the time, collectively, we weren't happy at all with the car.

Max wasn't happy.

Everyone was like, this is not working.

And we need to try something quite radical here.

And so we all kind of had a meeting on Saturday night.

And it was sort of decided, and I was on board with it because the idea was, let's try something quite crazy, but it might help get a direction for Liam and for the team going forward to make this car a bit easier to drive.

And so we decided, okay, let's start from the pit lane and basically radically change the car.

We made a massive, like a change you would never do on a race weekend.

Right.

You know, like a normal change times 10.