Rob Smedley
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They will look at this as an opportunity to close that gap.
And the gap is huge this year.
Two, three seconds a lap.
I've never known it to be that way in my 30 years in Formula 1.
Cadillac.
I remember my first year in Formula One with British American Racing, brand new team.
There were three people in February of 98 and 225 in March of 99 when we started racing.
And although we had reliability issues, we were performant.
We were qualifying top six.
And in our second year, we finished fourth in the championship, tied fourth with Jordan.
In year two.
Year two of a brand new team, British American Racing, had three employees, like I said, in February of 98.
And two years later, two years later in Australia, we finished fourth and sixth in that race.
With a Honda, that was 20 horsepower down.
What year was that, 99?
No, 2000.
2000.
Don't forget that.
EJ was really good too in his first year, the seven-up car.
Yeah.