Jake Humphrey
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So you've got to play this game all the time.
So yeah, there's no doubt that the top teams are already starting to think about that and how they don't like... So if you've got that written in the rules that if you're so far behind, you get an opportunity to catch up.
third and fourth place teams to try and knock it back a bit to try and create that gap to try and get the token or is that going too far down the playing games route no no no that is the game right so they will be playing that game they want to fall back as far into that into their gap
to create a bigger gap in Mercedes.
But Mercedes can keep coming back, so it becomes like... And the sport just gets slower and slower and slower.
No.
No.
Because you've got this energy imbalance, right?
That you can harvest less than you can use.
So you can't use all of, like you can use much less on a lap than you can actually harvest on a lap.
So it becomes, so you've got to play all of the, I mean, and it's always been a little bit like this with, like since we brought in the Kurs back in the day, that you're playing all of these games with it.
But this now is like there's a clear energy imbalance.
And so the drivers can't drive the cars flat out.
They have to do this super clipping on the straight.
I mean, Formula 1, like, Formula 1 is an entertainment, right?
I mean, as much, like, I'm, my profession is engineer.
Yeah.
And as much as I would love it just to be all about engineering, that's quite boring for the public to watch, right?
That's, they, like, you know, what's the number now?
Especially for the new fans.