Back to the drawing board
One of the things that I do which is distinct from working with racing cars is giving lectures about the design, build and operation of them. At the start of the presentation the first phrase usually goes along the lines of a caveat: ‘I can’t tell you how to do it, but I can certainly tell you how not to do it.’
This derives from compiling all the mistakes that I have committed along the years in the business and is into volume XVII by now. This is called experience, but it is really ‘oops, I was wrong, let’s not make this mistake again.’ And
