Damon Hill
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And then when something doesn't⦠I don't think so.
I think it's because you like to think that it's merit-based.
And okay, the difference in cars means that the guy in the house isn't going to win the race.
But you want to think that theβ¦
The best drivers have ended up getting in the best cars and then competing with each other in the best cars.
And whoever wins, that's a merit-based result.
And I think for a while there, the way that those particular tyres were working and nobody understood them, it wasn't.
It was just random.
And I think getting back to your point ofβ¦
When the regulators tweak things like that to try and make outcomes where they have as their goal a certain outcome, that's getting into script writing rather than competition.
No.
Yeah.
Yeah, and I think this is a conflict that Formula One is increasingly finding itself in.
I think it's always to an extent being this, that you're trying to tell a nice simple story from a very complex competition, from a very complex endeavor.
And I think you have to be careful that you are not just telling a story that's not authentic.
You're not presenting a story that's not authentic.
And I think a lot of people, maybe not the hardcore fans of the sport, but a lot of the more recent fans, let's say,
would value entertainment over knowing the full picture.
They would almost prefer, if there's a complication to this, it's going to stop me enjoying that.
I just don't want to hear.