“I could have gotten angry or down; could have said something silly like ‘Our engine department let us down,’ but not only did I not believe that, saying it would have been like lobbing a grenade into our garage. We’d worked for a year and a half to build a cohesive team. I wasn’t about to tear that down because of one bad week.”
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