“It’s query. Why change it now? The cleanest level to have finished it could have been at first of the 12 months. Logan, as I mentioned from the outset, on the finish of final 12 months he was beginning to get inside a tenth of Alex, beginning to be shut, and it was good to see his development.
“If that development continued, we might have a driver, I believe, in a really robust place this 12 months. It didn’t really feel like the correct level to chop ties, sever ties, because of it. The rationale now’s simple. We’ve had sufficient expertise underneath our belt to know that he’s reached the restrict of what he’s capable of obtain.
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“It’s virtually unfair on him, moreover, persevering with. Take a look at his face when he will get out of the automotive, he’s given you the whole lot he presumably can, and it’s not sufficient.
“He completely by no means, from a human perspective, did something however give me 100% of what he was capable of do, however the realisation of the place he’s on his limits now may be very clear – it’s clear to everybody.”