I was at work on my drawing board, puzzling over the car, when one of the model-makers asked for a word. A good guy who I’d known since IndyCar days, and who, like quite a few of the team, had become a friend, he’d come to see me to question a drawing. I’d left a line too long. ‘Ah,’ he said. ‘You wouldn’t have made that mistake a couple of years ago.’ Which about summed it up for me. The team was obviously beginning to lose confidence in me. Added to this, maybe my friendship with so many members of our tiny team was backfiring – familiarity breeds contempt. More to the point, maybe he was
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