Ben Anderson

Yeah, it's more harvest rich.

It's harvest rich.

Yeah.

So I think you could, in theory, achieve nine megajoules there.

So you shouldn't have too much problem changing.

draining and refilling your battery.

Obviously, there are some long straights, and that broad trend of, well, you achieve your Vmax early on a straight, and then you start to taper, that still exists.

You can't eliminate that without fundamentally changing the ratio between the IC and the battery.

So I imagine what we'll see is some of those more marginal corners.

What was interesting about the Melbourne...

McLaren did is some of those more marginal corners, not the really extreme nine, 10 fast chicane after the long drag, that would still have been the same, except they would have just, you know, clipped a bit later approaching the corner.

But those corners after that in the last sector where they were also having to do it because you just needed to, to recharge the battery, you don't get the benefit of that now.

So it just shifts some of those kinds of medium speed corners that were being sacrificed for,

for harvesting into a zone where actually you can drive them more normally so i think it will overall be a step in the right direction even if the cars are slow around the circuit overall but i don't think it fundamentally addresses the issue and i also don't think we're going to see the real benefit of it at a track like miami where you just are you know you've got an embarrassment of riches really in terms of of deployment on that last point i would

Yeah, I think that the layout thing is key, because Suzuka and Shanghai are both in a similar camp to Miami in terms of their energy richness, potentially.

But just the nature of the corners, especially Suzuka, much more fast-flowing corners, and they had to be sacrificed there.

at this altar of harvesting and that would still be the case it just might be less extreme so maybe some of the S's are a bit more conventional rather than all of them ruined by the need to charge the battery but in Miami you just don't have really too many of those sequences there's a bit in the early part of the lap isn't there but then the rest of it is pretty much straight and slow corner straight and slow corner combinations which you'd think is perfect for this kind of formula where you need to use braking energy to to charge the battery

What I am happy about is just some of those really extreme elements disappearing.

Like Scott said, you want the drivers to have not much time to react as they get to the end of the straight and then have to approach the cornering challenge.

You don't need an age of, oh, we're just decelerating so they can just get ready to coast into a corner.