Alex Jacques
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So it's that challenge of not...
repeating the same phrase, but then it turns into the challenge of being a broadcaster.
Okay, so you've got to give the same information, but you've got to present it in a different way.
The audience can't be exhausted by hearing State of Charge the entire time.
The one thing I would say is, as keen as I am not to turn it into a university lecture, if it's to do with the performance of the cars, and like you're referencing here, Ed, you've got no choice.
You've got absolutely no choice.
You've got to refer to...
If it's affecting an overtake, if it's affecting on-track performance, you've got to cover the whole thing.
Now, obviously, you can do that in degrees of complexity.
But if it's a move because someone has more battery recharge or that car's power unit is better, we'll see this as they can form across the year.
There are going to be nuances on how that works.
Has a driver got a real knack around a certain circuit to do it where the one in a head can't?
All of those are important.
All of those details need to be distilled into maybe five words.
But then I love a challenge.
I love a challenge.
I think that that is the difference between being able to do that well and being able to do that across 30 seconds is basically the difference between whether you're doing your job well or okay.
Yeah, it's an interesting one.
So our commentary goes out on F1 TV, but it also goes out on Channel 4 and it also goes out on Apple Television for the first time in the States.
So you have a responsibility to reflect accurately what's going on.