Matt Miller

Why choose Ford as a partner?

Jim, for you, this must be exciting because you've built, honestly, a new legacy for Ford in terms of racing.

I mean, on the one hand, you've got the new industrialized America here.

On the other hand, you're going back to Le Mans.

with a hypercar in a couple of years, you're essentially doing DFV 2.0, right?

This is like the Cosworth of old.

When you're talking to Bill Ford, when you're talking to the shareholders, how do you justify this spend and this drive to go racing?

And you've obviously got a deep, rich history there and you're bringing your software and battery technology, those capabilities, to Red Bull Racing.

But for you, Laurent, this is a whole new thing, right?

Building the engine.

I know you're getting a lot of help from Ford.

What are they helping you with on the fuel side?

especially since I think you've said you gave up some time focused on last year's car, so you're in a hurry to make sure that this year, this new car, when Max gets in it in Bahrain, right, that it's a winner and not a learning moment.

How do you make sure that you're winning straight out of the gate?

Jim, what can you bring back from this, I guess, laboratory, if you will,

to the Ford customer here in America?

Because yesterday we saw figures from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics that showed prices for the average passenger car, not Ford, but across the industry, are up more than $500.

Prices for the average truck across the industry are up more than $1,000.

What can you bring back that puts value into those price increases?

Laurent, the President of the United States was with Jim a couple of days ago here touring their plants.