00:00I want to ask you more about Franco, because we have seen an extraordinary turnaround by him this year.
00:07Why do you think that is?
00:09We're working very hard with him.
00:11We're working, he's moving to Monaco.
00:14I see him a lot in Monaco.
00:17We're talking a lot with him.
00:19You know, this young driver arriving in Formula 1 with a lot of pressure.
00:23And to settle mentally is not easy.
00:28We need help him.
00:30We've done a lot of work with Franco.
00:35And now, little by little, the confidence arrives.
00:38He has a talent.
00:40Okay, just forget.
00:41He has a talent.
00:42I don't know our level of talent we arrive with him.
00:48But sure, he has a talent.
00:49This is 100%.
00:51Like Antonelli, I still have a talent.
00:54This year, he showed up the talent.
00:57And Franco is not sure of the talent completely, because still, in this way.
01:03But honestly, if you tell me, I don't know.
01:07Let's see.
01:08Okay.
01:08Flavio, can I remind you of a quote from Drive to Survive?
01:13Yeah.
01:14I don't know.
01:14This series.
01:16You are the problem you have to understand, is what you said to Franco.
01:23Was that a bit much?
01:24Do you regret being that hard on him?
01:27No.
01:27You know, there's always this feeling about the driver's untouchable.
01:32And the mechanic is working day and night.
01:36Last night, I think our mechanic is finished at 2 o'clock in the morning.
01:39But when you talk about the driver, you need very careful to talk with the driver, very
01:42careful to this.
01:43No, it's not like that.
01:45The driver is the managing director of the company.
01:47The driver is bringing the result to the team.
01:50And you need to tell the truth, what I believe it, and it tell to the driver.
01:55I don't go in the back to talk with the press, talk about, you know what?
01:58No, no, no, no.
01:59I go in front to him and talk about, this is the problem.
02:02What is the problem?
02:03It's you.
02:03Simple as that.
02:06Now, the problem is not the problem anymore, because Franco is performing well.
02:13At the time, what's the problem?
02:16I tell him, between you and Pierre, you have a thousand people working for your guys.
02:23And you need to respect these thousand people working for your guys.
02:27Sure, with different salaries, you need to demonstrate to me, you doing everything
02:31that's possible to perform.
02:33It's a confidence game, this, isn't it?
02:36Is that the main difference we've seen in Franco?
02:39The confidence is there.
02:42And, you know, before, you had the briefing, it was looking always what Pierre is doing,
02:48you know?
02:49I told him, it's wrong.
02:50You need driving the car in your way.
02:53You don't need driving the car thinking about the telemetry, this and that.
02:56You have a talent.
02:57And I tell Franco, you need driving the car like you enjoy driving the car.
03:02This is the job you like.
03:03Enjoy the job.
03:04Yeah.
03:05Talking about enjoying the job, when he did the show car run in Buenos Aires,
03:09and what was it, 600,000 people came out to watch him.
03:14That was just before Miami when we saw the turnaround.
03:18I mean, it's...
03:19No, the turnaround was in the beginning already, yeah.
03:21It was already...
03:22You saw it already before then?
03:23Yeah, it was in the beginning already.
03:25But, sure.
03:26Actually, there was a...
03:27He did a defensive masterclass in China, didn't he?
03:30Yeah.
03:31I never believed it.
03:34I believed in 10,000, 20, half million people to see nothing.
03:41Because everybody was behind to everybody.
03:45You have a half million people see nothing.
03:48And the strange is, Franco never won nothing.
03:54I still don't understand this half million people, or more, or 600,
04:00standing there for Franco.
04:04I don't really...
04:05I don't understand.
04:06You've always seen the bigger picture in Formula One.
04:09Would you like to see a race in Argentina?
04:11Back in Argentina?
04:13If I still have Franco, yes.
04:16If I know Franco, I know what I have.
04:18Well, Flavio, give us an exclusive.
04:21Is your intention to retain Franco for 2027?
04:26If Franco is performing like he's performing now,
04:30and the relationship between Franco and Pierre is like now, you know?
04:36It's the same we have with Alonso at the time,
04:40with Fisichella, with Rulli.
04:42It was a super relationship.
04:44Why not?
04:47I prefer to have...
04:48I know Franco very well now.
04:50We know Pierre very well.
04:52We are in the moment to build up the...
04:54Technically, to build up the team.
04:56Consistency?
04:57Maybe.
04:58Maybe.
04:58We have plenty of race to go just to the end of August,
05:02and before the summer break, we decide.
