Scott Mitchell-Malm

to get the cars on the grid.

When they are on the grid, they're not moving off it very quickly because they've got this problem off the starts.

But getting detail out of Audi or them offering it is just quite poor because they just default to a technical issue and this sort of thing.

And I think there is a kind of collective issue in F1 with kind of dumbing things down or being overly simplistic about certain things rather than giving people the benefit of the doubt.

Or if you think they're not going to understand this, if we just say something specific, maybe help them understand it by leading them through it.

That's the thing.

In modern F1, there are no problems.

But when there's a massive regulation shift across car and engine, I think the audience, casual, existing, diehard, whatever, new, old, whatever...

Give them the benefit of the doubt that actually they will understand, even on a very basic level, this is really hard and it's meant to be hard.

So if you haven't done it perfectly, tell them why.

Tell them what you've got wrong.

Tell them what you're working on.

You don't have to promise a timeline to fix it.

You don't have to say, oh, don't worry, this will be fine for the next race and then have egg on your face when the same thing happens at the next Grand Prix.

But...

I just don't see what the issue is.

In fact, I think Audi would have won a lot of people over.

It would have reflected very well on the team externally.

Internally, I think it also helps a bit because it just makes it really clear that you're not hiding anything that you don't know.

Because there are people that work within the team sometimes, or a lot of the times even, they don't get that messaging internally.