Damon Hill
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I think a shout out, of course, to Mario Andretti, which if you compare his IndyCar career, and if you look at his IndyCar career and his F1 career, all as one thing, he was winning races and championships in the old, certainly races in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
So, you know, I think that's pretty extraordinary as well.
So, Damon, we've just had the first ADEO adjustment, additional development upgrade opportunities of the internal combustion engines, ICEs.
That's a component of the PU, the power unit.
And...
Are you going to speak English in a minute?
Okay, I'll stop with that.
So basically, it's a performance equalizing mechanism that the FIA and F1 together have combined to try and bring everybody's internal combustion engines to roughly the same level.
Is that something we should be doing?
Is that right?
Because to me, it feels a bit like
The world record 100-meter sprinter sets his time and then you say to him, okay, you can't compete for a while.
We're going to see if some other people can't beat your time.
Yeah.
So where do you stand on that?
Should we be doing that in a sport or is it a sport?
Yeah.
So that's always been the DNA of Formula One, isn't it?
And I think while you can say the driving competition, you could call that a sport and
But the technological competition, it's still competition, but it's slightly different to sport, isn't it?