If Martin didn't know Jack, he would have thought Lambert was nervous about the arrival of a new driver. Who knows, maybe he even feels threatened by him? Jack was no longer the youngest and the new young wolf in the stable, as in last season of Paxton, could threaten Lambert's position. But Martin knew that geniuses like Steve happen once in ten years and it took a really good class to stay in the lead like Jack for so many years. The new drivers flashed in for a season or two, but Jack was a respectable veteran and no one was going to get rid of him.
Steve, meanwhile, looked absolutely uninterested in the new driver. Entirely focused on his job, he drove at the exact pace Abe commanded him, even with the level of aggressiveness prescribed. Paxton was as obedient as rare, which interested the mechanics more than the third driver who was just talking to old Fergus.
