Alex Jacques

live on TV in 1994 was a catalyst to Formula One going, we've got a choice to make here.

We can either be an extreme sport that's a niche, or if we're going to continue to run live into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons and Sunday mornings, we're going to have to make this safe.

Because if you think of all the reasons that we've talked about

the humanity and the characters and the personality shining through.

We can't lose the people.

And Formula One was in an existential crisis in 1994.

They made safety front and center.

And a lot of very, very talented engineers and doctors and medical professionals improved standards.

And you can never make it fully safe, but it has been done through three decades of really strong advancement of safety because that was pushed for in the aftermath of

of Ayrton Senna passing away in 1994?

It's fascinating that in those sort of days, so he was 16th on the grid.

He'd not had a very good qualifying.

Then it becomes about instinct.

It becomes about feel.

It's not pure power.

It's not pure grip.

It's just what have you got when it comes to manipulating the car?

And the reason that Mercedes had an 18-year-old in the car is Max Verstappen.

They'd missed out on Max.

So the amazing thing is about young prodigies is that you can always point to a performance in their junior career that makes the senior management of a Formula One team take a risk on them.