Sounds a bit desperate, basically spooked by their performance in Australia.

“In order to get the parts here, we had to really shortcut the process – whether it’s going to make one-percent difference or 50-percent difference, honestly, I cannot say,” he said.

“Depending on what we see, it could be as bad as Melbourne, or it could be even better than Shanghai. I think FP1 the key for us; as soon as we do a lap or as soon as we go through sector one, we will know if it’s going to be like Melbourne or not.”

“We had to bring something, we couldn’t come here with the same car as Melbourne and just hope for the best.

“We just wanted to take as much in our control as possible. That’s just a judgement call in terms of risk management to shortcut that process.”

When asked how the process of bringing the floor differed to that of a more usual process, Komatsu explained: “Honestly, we just relied on our aero guys and designers’ understanding to make certain modifications.

“So certain things are geometrically different and aerodynamically different as well.

“We just put everyone’s latest understanding, without any proof, because we had to design it, we had to release it, we had to make it – otherwise we weren’t going to make it here.

“So, we had to do it. But then, respectively we put it in the windtunnel, to see if that idea is actually correct or not.

“It is correct. It’s definitely the right direction. But I just don’t know how much difference it’s going to make.”