Edd Straw

We'll get on to some of the details and complications shortly.

But what's the political landscape that's led to this slightly unexpected decision on this timeline?

What I like is the fact that they've really looked at the big picture and tackled the problems we've been talking about for a long time.

So yeah, changing the splits, a little bit less deployment, potentially a little bit more harvesting, potentially a bit more battery capacity to make everything work.

And F1's very good at problem solving, isn't it?

So the positive take on all this is that this is the right sort of direction with a version of the current power units, because the

there'll be people thinking why not just go straight to v8s but there's all sorts of reasons why that can't be done very very quickly that is a longer term project and we'll talk about that in the part three of the podcast but i think it's good that they've got they've got to the heart of it rather than just fiddling around the edges and sort of rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic they're thinking no we don't want to be on this titanic let's change what we're doing here let's get the

Something else in that analogy, I could have worked on that one a little bit better.

But that's the thing.

They've looked at what the underpinning challenge is, what could be possible, and then they'll get on to tackling some of the difficulties and the question marks about how you implement it in part two.

That's how this decision-making process should work, isn't it?

We've collectively – and it's done through the normal governance pattern, so it is collectively, even though there have been different factions –

And they've got to a positive move in the right direction that's actually bigger than I thought that collectively F1 would be willing to go, because I thought they were going to double down on being dogmatic about it.

But actually, to my surprise, here is an attempt to make a proper big stride forward.

Okay, John, we've done the positivity.

Now let's dig into it because some of those things you've talked about, possible bigger batteries, changes to hardware, all of these sorts of things, it's not quite as simple as waving a magic wand.

So that phrase I like to use, the devil's in the detail.

So what are the problems that need to be solved to make this work?

But nobody's sitting on a 10% improvement in energy density.

It's too ridiculous.