“I’ve grown a lot as a driver and I think we’ve grown a lot also as a team, because when it’s been such a long time, obviously, the people in the team, most of them have changed, and so for many people, it was also the first time fighting again with Ferrari at the top.
“So I think it’s an important process. But yeah, I think in the last four years, we’ve taken steps by going in the right direction. With Carlos, we’ve pushed the team into a very good direction, and I think we are in a very good place now.
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“Obviously, we just came short of the ultimate goal this year. But I kind of agree with Lando [Norris] that momentum is not really a thing. There’s been quite a lot of examples on our side where we finished a year strong and then the beginning of the year after we’ve been struggling, so we really need to stay on it.
“We’ve had quite a few examples, and we managed to pinpoint what went wrong in that winter break, that we didn’t do quite right, and that we paid the price at the beginning of the season after, and this is probably the experience that is the most helpful in order to start next year in the best possible way.”