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
