Jon Noble

So you get more power in qualifying, pull the deployment back.

And then in the races, you pull it back to what it's now.

So everyone's settled in.

And then it's a step change into 28, where all the regulations are across both.

It's not the preferred solution.

From what I understand, FIA and manufacturing teams want everything as agreed package into 27.

But...

Trying to reach agreement on cost cap, trying to reach agreement on chassis allowances and fuel tanks may be too complicated a fight to win and get across the line.

So we may end up with a halfway house.

Yeah, you can't have bigger batteries and not change the chassis.

It's absolutely central to the car design.

Bang in between the floor and the fuel tank and the power unit where the MG UK is.

So if you want to increase that, you're going to need to change the chassis.

So this goes the same as handing over the other elements that if we're going to carry over chassis, if the conclusion is to carry over chassis into next year, you can't have a bigger battery.

And you can't have one size for qualifying and bolt an extra pack on the back.

It would have to be consistent between qualifying and race.

Two cars.

You have two cars back and you can go in the spare.

So the battery element is dependent then on the chassis regulations, which is then dependent on the cost cap.

So this is why there's a lot of work to be done to get this thing across the line.