[Griever20]

The good news, the reliability was no fluke, we went to the end of the race without repairs or a retirement. The bad news, so did everyone else.

We ran a sensible strategy with both guys and pretty much got the same result, +- 5 seconds. There is some optimization to do for the race weekend, see later, but the truth is, this is as far as the car would've taken us anyways.

However, Qatar is the worst case circuit. No rain, no retirements, no safety cars, and only one car that fell back significantly enough in Lucía Flores after a crash, a out of sync pit stop strategy and a drive through. Which means, we were too slow to capitalize on eventual drama in the midfield.

On the plus side, the racecraft is fine. Woodford had a very good first stint, apart from flat spotting the tires(...) and Iker fought like a lion for six laps to keep Flores in last place.

Optimization:
We focused on the soft tire in free practice, and then 'only' used it once on Vidal and twice on Woodford. We are leaving some performance on the table here and by mirroring the strategy of the teams in front, we won't make any hay.

Development Report:

The second brake system finished during the race, and we should be able to fit them to the car for the Japanese GP in two weeks. Jenny found a decent solution for the suspension, adding performance with decent reliability, and while it is not a great jump, it helps and should be ready to be used on Vidal's car.

That means that we still will use our funds to go for it this season. What do I mean? We basically have three options regarding to car development:

1. Go for it. Build parts that help us this season and add instant performance to the car while overstretching our factory capacity. Hope: Be close to competitive at the end of the season and land some solid finishes/points to stay in the WMC.

2. Stop development completely, invest the money into further HQ upgrades, and most likely, gracefully get relegated to the APSC. If we wanted to do that, the janitor would design the car, the two cleaning ladies would be the race engineers, and we would've signed Woodford and another pay driver and forgot about Vidal and a good staff. Not my kind of business

3. Develop for 2017 and only putting spare parts on the 2016, hoping for a lucky result that keeps us in the WMC while not really upgrading the actual car. This is like, the high risk, high reward version and in all likelihood, we would definitely throw solid cash out of the window.

It is option 1 for now.