Tom Clarkson

Ayo, welcome to the show.

Two years on since your last appearance.

Yeah, thanks for having me back.

It's great to be back.

Well, should I be afraid, first of all?

Because I saw some very interesting pre-season preparation for you, I think, on Instagram.

Quite good to have that in your back pocket in the Formula One paddock, right?

If anyone annoys Ayo Komatsu, watch out.

I'm not that good.

Well, Ayo, as I said at the top, it's been a couple of years since you were last on the show.

Tell us, how has it gone since then?

So it really helps that you are an engineer by trade because you can understand the weaknesses.

How have you improved this communication?

I think it's really interesting.

Are you now overseeing weekly meetings with everybody that wasn't happening before?

Or is Andrea Di Zordo doing that?

And this is why you reorganized the engineering teams at the racetrack at the start of last year as well?

Now, this segues beautifully into something I wanted to ask you about next, which is that week between Melbourne and China last year.

Now, I don't want to bring back bad memories, but I think it defines your leadership beautifully because you come to Melbourne in 2025 and the car is like half a second slower than anything else.

Yeah.