Alex Jacques

Then suddenly, you're looking at an incredible rewriting of what we take as the basics.

But then my thought going into Melbourne was, this is people's weekends.

They've been waiting all winter for this to come back.

I don't want this to turn into a university lecture and just be like bombarding the audience with...

with the technical details.

And yet you've got to explain why we're getting the yo-yo racing.

You've got to explain why we had more pass and repass in the opening laps of Melbourne than potentially Melbourne has ever seen.

There's been a few battles through the years, but nothing like that where it's, oh, Russell gets ahead, but he can't keep it.

So that was a really tricky balance to strike because fundamentally,

you want people to enjoy a 90 minute motor race on a Sunday.

You're, you know, we're all going out to, to multifaceted audiences, things being broken down to different places to consume it.

So that balance has been extremely hard to strike.

By the time that we got out of Japan, I was like, okay, I think we know where we're going now.

I think we, you know, I think we understand what to highlight and what to leave to the more knowledgeable fans, more diehard petrol heads.

But it was a,

Really tough in Melbourne, really tough battles of balance to strike.

Yeah, it's the old lap one rule in that you don't go full, to borrow from Clive James, trousers on fire very early in the lap.

Because if not, and you get a move for seventh place and you've got no gears left, you can sound like...

You know, you can sound like someone making a move in the middle of the pack is the last lap of the World Championships.

You've always got to give yourself headroom on the opening lap.