John Noble

So I think it was a reality check.

for a team that needed to ramp up development, needed to ramp up its understanding of the cars, needed to ramp up aggression in terms of developments, needed to ramp up how fast it was pushing things forwards.

And I think that this was the reality of where they were.

They weren't miles off.

It wasn't a complete disaster, but it wasn't at the front of Formula One and it was going to take a little bit longer for it to get there.

And in the end, it took them until a rules reset came in to properly be there at the front.

It was also the grass is always greener.

F1's always thinking that we want something different to what we have now to cure all our problems.

So tyres that degrade and fall apart will be a bigger challenge for drivers.

We'll get offsets.

It'll cause lots of overtaking and be spectacular.

And when they did come in, Pirelli, and we had the start of 2012, all the different winners, it was all, oh, this is amazing.

And then you realise actually it's quite difficult to manage high degradation races.

Drivers don't like it.

The complaints are coming.

You need to rein back the degradation.

And then ever since then, we've bounced between...

zero degradation, high degradation, zero degradation, high degradation, just classic F1, not really knowing what it wants, but it knows it wants to be something different.

The next step, you know, we get it, you know, engine regulations, the same thing, chassis regulations, the same thing.

No.