Three… two… one…
It’s Hammertime!
A little bit more excited… a little bit more energetic
Come on
Three… two… one…
IT’S HAMMERTIME!
TIME TIME TIME
Bono and Tony there?
Yep
Yeah, I’m there
Radio check
Radio is loud and clear Lewis
And radio check Valtteri
Copy
We’ve got Toto at the end and then to the right of him,
we’ve got Lewis’ crew and then to the left-hand side we have got Valtteri’s
crew and then working from Toto’s end,
so the back of the garage forward, we’ve got the Race Engineer,
who is actually on the radio, then you have the Performance Engineer,
and that’s Ricci or Marcus,
and then from there on one side we have tyres,
on Lewis’ side, and they are basically across garage,
so they are performing that role,
and then on the other side we have got the
aero representative, so that tends to roll through the season with
different personnel every other race.
And then at the far end we’ve got the HPP
engine mechanic who is basically just looking at the engine
fire-ups, making sure we end up sending the car out
at the right temperature with all the right pressures
As a team principal, the risk of distracting
the operational guys is much bigger than actually
adding some value, so I felt that for my role, sitting back in
the garage and having an overview of everything is more important.
Well, I can see both engineering teams,
I can see Tony and I can see Bono and his
team, I see the cars on track and I can see the
guys on the pit wall out there.
The pit wall, it was an area where it is very
noisy, the old V8 cars pounding around making a lot
of noise and back then the radio quality wasn’t brilliant.
So, now we have got the digital noise cancelling and it is so much better.
I can’t see much. I am not very tall, so…
Yep, he can’t see anything at all.
Tony’s got the benefit of… yeah… yeah,
he is about three or four inches taller than
me, so he can actually see over.
I have to tend to peer around...
So, I’m looking mainly at the chassis channels
So, looking at the telemetry,
So that’s both the reliability of the car
and the performance elements of the car
You have to be careful just to take out the ones you are not interested in
And then finally, I’m trying to think what the third thing is…
Strategy is one
*mumbles*
There are so many feeds in terms of channels
*mumbles*
I’ve actually got about 16 different things but…
Even when you come back from the summer shutdown,
because you’ve been away for two weeks,
it’s like the first day of term again.
Through a weekend, because it’s so kind of busy,
you’ve got to remember again ‘ah, right,
I should be doing this now, I should be doing that now'
No, I didn’t really struggle with the front
anymore, so the front was good
Valtteri has his own Finnish style of being very, very
calm, very objective, even in the most stressful of situations
Have you gone for a break, Bono?
Because I have not had an update for a while
Normally I am just giving him a lap by lap update,
I’m like his virtual pit board. We do hang the pit board out,
but it’s a lot easier for me to just tell him
what the gaps are, lap times and any concerns we have got
Back now Lewis. So, yeah, Verstappen 33.6,
we have lost that Safety Car gap to him with
the traffic. You are going to have five cars coming up soon
This is a relatively new thing in that we
now have wireless intercoms available, and we can use
those on the grid. So, you may see on the pit wall and on the
Engineers Island we’ve got the intercom panel,
which has got about 10 buttons on it. And each of those buttons is not a person,
it’s a group of people, it’s a conversation. But in terms of when the drivers come back
to the garage, what they do is they stick the
headset on, I am on the grid, I have an intercom panel
with me, a wireless pack, that I can actually talk
to the driver whilst they are in the garage.
There is no cameras, no fuss and we can have
a quick debrief about the laps to the grid,
what the balance felt like, what is the weather like,
what are we expecting. So, we can actually go through all
that without the hustle and bustle of 1,000 people crowded
round the car on the grid.
Good job, good job
YES!
Great job Bono, great job everyone,
everyone back at the factory, what a weekend
Yes, get in it. Get in there Lewis!
You can hear it mate, you can hear that crowd!
You are the man!
The last question, what do you love most in your job?
Ohhh, winning
Winning