Ben Anderson

Is that not what's being discussed?

Because you'd have to have the same fuel flow right between the two because the hardware would be designed around that.

upgrade well i think from what you said the the blunt instrument is and the the battleground will be actually you can't carry the chassis over it's going to have to be a new chassis to accommodate the hardware and therefore there has to be some kind of discussion over the cost cap and the financial headroom and it will be how much extra money do you need who pays for it what's the fairest way to judge it because if you can move those dials properly then the rest kind of takes care of itself i think

the cost cap for teams to build a chassis which would be an improvement they're all they'll all take that yeah but it's whether this then opens you know does that then open a pandora's box of more complications further down the further down the road this this is why depending on who's where with what they've spent and how much room they've already got etc but it's been done with before with inflationary costs hasn't it so and that also wasn't an easy process so i imagine it will be a huge huge fight

Simultaneously overflowing, but energy starved, I imagine is the knowledge bucket at the moment.

48 sprints I could do without, but I think I would accept shorter races if it meant that we got a more normal race.

for want of a better word, performance profile out of the cars.

But does anyone think, before I get too excited and go away and enjoy my weekend with a warm, fuzzy glow that F1's finally moving in the right direction, think this could get just completely derailed?

Because like John said, it's in principle, it's not fully over the line.

What could stop this sudden pragmatic agreement from actually becoming reality?

And Mercedes being the bad guy, basically, because they've got the most to lose, haven't they, from the Agile thing going through as normal.

And like you say, somebody...

being almost incidentally able to lock in a catch-up.

agility and lower weight of the cars because there's no way they can keep the weight down and have bigger batteries and more power etc so i think that's probably a compromise worth having as much as i like the direction the chassis themselves have gone in and they're lighter and more agile and

better to drive at low speed.

I just think that's been overwhelmed massively by the problems created by everything else.

It's kind of really ended up exactly where Christian Horner said it would, when Red Bull were first kind of making noises about Frankenstein F1.

So he'd probably be quite pleased and a bit wry in reacting to this, thinking, well, this is what we said, and now you're kind of actually adopting what we said, but just three years too late.

But it might also...

mean that Max Verstappen doesn't walk away at the end of the season.