While Ronan O’Hare will look after Oliver Bearman, Laura Mueller will be Esteban Ocon’s race engineer, becoming the first full-time female race engineer in modern Formula 1. Not that the ‘female’ part of that sentence is something Komatsu gave any time to.

“If you look at how many female engineers we have in the office, it’s definitely more than before,” Komatsu says. “But it’s not like I chose Laura because she’s female. We don’t care about nationality, gender – it really doesn’t matter. because what matters is work.

“How you can fit into the team? How you can maximize the performance? And Laura and Ronan happened to be the right people. I believe it is the right choice.”