Jon Noble

But this is a critical first step to get everyone on board with the idea, at least, even if the devil's in the detail.

And that detail is going to be very complicated.

One of the biggest ones is chassis, actually, bizarrely, even though we're talking about power units.

The biggest complication from what I understand is the chassis that under the cost cap, based on how much work teams have had to do this year and some kind of re...

structuring of the processes with cost cap because it's a new form of cost cap this year with more inclusions but teams have found themselves pushed to the top of the ceiling into this season so from what we understand around half the grid was planning on carrying over the chassis to

into next year um they felt that it wasn't a critical performance area for these regulations it made sense to roll it into 27 gives people some more headroom next year for development in other areas of the car and works well the problem with that is the chassis includes the fuel tank

And the fuel tank is based on the size of the fuel tank is based on the amount of fuel needed to go into the power unit based on the fuel flow.

So if you increase the fuel flow for next year to deliver this extra power, so from what I understand, fuel flow grew up by 10%.

then that means you'll burn through 10% more fuel.

And if you've been aggressive with your fuel tank, there perhaps isn't 10% more capacity to put more fuel into your car, especially those races where they're quite fuel heavy.

So there's a conundrum here.

So the only solutions to get around this problem are either you lift the cost cap, so give teams an allowance to revise their fuel tank and make it bigger,

And if you can't do that, then the only other way is to shorten the races.

So you'd have to pull back the number of laps so the fuel doesn't become a problem.

Now I'd have to get my head around, because the fuel's on a calorific... You'd have to increase the calorific, because it's a calorific measurement, not a volumetric measurement.

But the more likely scenario that I've discussed with people is that you do neither.

So people do carry over their chassis.

You increase the fuel flow, but only for qualifying.

So this would then deliver you...

the improvement and step change into qualifying.