The Mercedes Engine Deal Was Done Without Knowing That the Team Was Going to Be Saved

It was always going to be a change. We all believe that we were going to go Ferrari for the first couple of weeks. It's obvious, Ross Braun, Ferrari, we need an engine. They want to give us an engine. And then I think we were told on the 23rd or 24th of December that we're going Mercedes. Was that sort of panic across the design office then? It's Christmas tomorrow. No, Christmas is cancelled. We've got to get this engine in the back of the car. I don't think anybody's done that in the history of Formula One. If you'd had a year's build-up, would it have been a very different