Paul Aron: “Bring back the Estonian flag to Formula 1”

Until Silverstone, the first part of the season was practically perfect. Did you expect, in February, to be at this point in the game, with great regularity and even leading the championship for several rounds?

It was very difficult to know what to expect from this season initially, since it's my first in Formula 2. It's also a new car, and we've had few tests. Only three days originally, which became two after the cancellation of the first day due to logistical problems encountered by certain teams. That's not much. We struggled quite a bit in the Bahrain test. I might as well feel comfortable in the car that the team made it go quickly. After these tests, I was not the most optimistic in the world, but the team took a huge step forward for the first race in Bahrain. I immediately felt comfortable in it, the speed was there and we managed to score big points. However, I knew that Bahrain was a special circuit and not necessarily representative of the rest of the routes on the calendar. There was therefore nothing guaranteed for the future. Then seeing that I still had pace in Jeddah and Melbourne, I said to myself that we could do great things and that we had a good car. When I spoke with the different teams last winter, I was quite calm about going to Hitech, because they had great results in the past. There may never have been years where they put it all together 100%, but they were always very ra