Unfortunately the sweetness of that second consecutive home race victory was somewhat dulled when Mark came on the radio on his victory lap in reply to Christian’s congratulations to say, ‘Yeah mate, not bad for a number two driver.’ Mark was incensed that Seb had been given ‘his’ assembly, despite the fact he didn’t want it. Possibly I am an insensitive engineer, but for me the interest is in developing and understanding the car, so if one of the drivers doesn’t want it – give it to the other. What I didn’t anticipate was the snowball effect that would result. The press had a field day with
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