Edd Straw

And there's ways and means to do that.

I mean, obviously, there's limits.

If you lean off too much, you have problems.

But I presume there'd be technical ways to adjust that.

Because fuel flow, there is a range of fuel flow you can achieve.

yeah that would be that would be my answer anyway because yeah you don't want to end up in a situation where you've got qualifying engines and race engines do you because that kind of goes against the principle of cost saving and uh what have you in formula one now complicated isn't it yeah i suspect what john says about that pragmatic kind of phasing in that does sound like it might be the most likely idea because my idea of finding a way to make it all add up financially

It would cost a little bit of money and need a little bit of negotiation.

But if it's worth doing for the product and there's a net benefit, then you can make a case for it.

But that seems like a solution.

How about the batteries, John, as well?

Because, again, if you were to make the battery bigger, be able to store more energy, it's physically bigger.

The battery is also in the chassis.

Now it has to be contained within there, so it's not bolt-on.

It's integrated.

So that's an extra challenge on top if they suddenly decided to go to 5 megajoules, which would be a great thing to do.

Yeah, and of course, it's important to remember that things like designing an F1 monocoque and producing it is quite a long lead time process.

So they do need to be very rapid.

But I like the fact that they've kind of posed these problems and it's difficult to come up with the solutions.

But at least if you commit in principle to doing the big picture, that compels you to tackle the smaller problems.

Yeah.