Jon Noble

Concerned about the work needed for power units.

Time's very, very tight now because work's already advancing quite quickly into 27.

So it seemed, on basis, not realistic.

We've got a step forward today.

It's an agreement in principle to the concept, but it would be wrong to say that all those concerns have now been wiped away, everything sorted, and there's a clear roadmap, which means everything's in place for the first race of 2027.

It's still a surprise though, isn't it?

I think the cause of this is the FIA have been quite proactive on it and there's been a subtle stance shift from them.

Whereas 12 months ago when we were expressing concerns about these regulations, they were quite defensive on elements of it, working to make them work.

But wouldn't speak badly of the public, but it must not be forgotten that even Bahrain last year famously, we ran the story, the FI proposed pulling back electrical deployment to 200 kilowatts.

So it knew back then there were issues in play.

Only last week, single-seater director Nicholas Tombasis talked about, you know, maybe F1 had overreached with its ambitions, with the electric power, that things needed to be tweaked.

It was a subtle shift, but it wasn't robustly defensive like Stefano Domenicali has been.

Everything's perfect.

There's no problems, John.

I don't know what you're talking about.

It's all great.

Yeah.

And I think they've, FIA's also, there's been an interesting change in the dynamic between drivers and FIA, that there's been direct contact, Mohamed Ben Salaim and Nicholas Tombasis, FIA representatives, and direct the drivers, because I think the drivers have framed the dialogue on these regulations an awful lot, because the racing itself, some days you can argue, some people don't think it's brilliant, some think it is brilliant,

Overall, it's not as terrible and it's not the cause of a crisis.

The issue has been more counterintuitive driving, qualifying, the speed drops, driving slower to go faster, all that weirdness on a Saturday.