Scott Mitchell-Malm

That wouldn't be the ideal way to start totally from scratch.

But I still think that's better than persevering with what Haas have done now.

I think you would have immediately a better base.

And maybe Toyota could facilitate that because you could stop that with personnel.

They could help with funding.

They could help with the technology.

and so on and so forth and you'd go from this situation where you know to come back to what JP was talking about before with the way that they've moved stuff around like it's basically like almost playing this organizational game where to fit something else in stuff's being stacked on top of other things moved around so that something doesn't just pop out the other side of the

And a good example of that was when a load of stuff was going on over the winter and they were just approaching the first test at Barcelona, the race support team basically did a bunch of work around that test from a meeting room in Banbury.

Because the actual place where they would normally be sited in that moment, it was too noisy because it's basically a work site, a construction site going on down there.

So...

sometimes needs must right like there's only so much space it's all it is finite but it's it's finite but there has to be a better future for has to operate out of because there's no doubt that they are they are pushing close to the maximum now kamatsu always said it was about getting the most out of what they had before they could start removing the next bottlenecks but but they have to be if they're not already pushing at that limit now

I do think as well there's been points in recent years.

I don't think it's necessarily this way now, but there definitely was a point around COVID where I think one option was that the team would just stop.

and and the cost gap being lowered and the changes they made to the concord agreement i think it would have done yeah and basically gunter stein who was team boss at the at the time was basically told if you can get if you can find the money to keep it running you can keep running the team basically because has isn't someone who would need to sell the team and like you know recoup his money or anything like that he's got more than enough money for several lifetimes um

So the team could just cease to function because Gene's not bothered with it anymore.

he could have done that in 2020 but he wasn't going to it was basically close the team or you find a way to keep it running like he wasn't entertaining selling it he was just going to stop it and surely now because the values are so much higher that must be different but I would also like to think that with the value being so high with the way the team's improved with the Toyota partnership with what they're trying to do and I know there are people at that team who

They're trying to make it clear to him where the limitations are.

Surely the motivation would be there to be like, do you know what?

With a bit of this here, with a bit of that there, this team could achieve so much more.

But again, go right back to what I said near the beginning about misplaced expectations.