Jon Noble

There is, as you've mentioned, it's an agreement in principle.

So there's nothing's been finalised.

It's still got a long way to go before it's in the regulations.

But there are four key changes that are on the table for next season.

Only two of these were mentioned in the press release.

The first one is increasing the ICE.

You increase that power by 50 kilowatts.

You pull back the battery power deployment by 50 kilowatts.

So the famed 50-50 split gets more towards 60-40 in favor of the ICE.

On top of that, they're evaluating bigger batteries.

So potentially we jump from maybe 4 megajoules to 5 megajoules.

And then further tweaks to harvesting, which at the moment is capped at 350 kilowatts.

So potentially you can lift that to 400, 450 kilowatts.

And the end result of that is more power in, which gives you more power out, more energy available, and hopefully get rid of these energy-starved cars struggling especially in qualifying.

So, Ben, is this a moment for you to celebrate?

Yeah, it is fascinating.

When we first got kind of wind that this was on the table, it was a couple of weeks ago, we ran the story that it's up for discussion, it's being debated, it could come in 27 or 28, but our source said it needs to be decided before the Canadian Grand Prix, which we thought, oh, that's a ridiculous timeframe.

Absolutely no way you'll get any consensus on that.

And then in the Miami paddock, speaking to people,

Teams concerned about the chassis implications, which we'll go into.