I still have the Clan wolf propaganda flyer the game came with and it turned into a lifelong hobby, I'm still making my way through all the Battletech novels.
It's easy to be magnanimous, calm, rational and fun when everything's going your way and a lot harder when it isnt.
This came up before for them when they were really challenged or things got tense but for one reason or another the pressure was let off and things went back to normal.
Some teams (people) handle the transition better than others and F1 has easily had examples of both over the years, think it just means their a regular team.