By now, the pattern was established.
Enter.
Find a problem.
Fix it.
Repeat.
The car was still the same. The issues were still familiar. The understanding was improving, but not fast enough to break the cycle.
This was the final year with the Veloce, although it didn’t feel like an ending at the time. It just felt like another iteration in a loop that hadn’t yet been solved.
Looking back, this was the plateau.
Not failing catastrophically.
Not progressing meaningfully.
Just existing within the process.