race-winning cars are not designed the winter before they win the race. They’re a product of several years of good work to develop the designs and engineering that you need to produce a successful car. If you have been part of a successful team, sometimes you can transplant that knowledge to a new team to some degree, or at least get you a step up the ladder. But it does take some time to get the infrastructure in place. If you go to a team that doesn’t have a good driver simulator, for instance, that’s something you have got to build. If you go there and it hasn’t got a good wind tunnel or
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