Jon Noble

We could be sitting here with George having won Melbourne, China, Japan, having struggled in Miami, and then we're talking about a comeback in Canada and it's back to normal and George roaring on and on his way to championship.

So it's just timings of safety car, poor reliability in China or timings of pit stops, these small elements that can decide.

But I think equally there is more pressure on George now than he probably would have liked heading into Melbourne.

There will still be tiny elements that can decide an awful lot.

But there's no reason why he doesn't rock up in Canada.

Absolutely blitz the weekend.

Everything's reset.

Monaco will be a bit more open.

I think the Ferraris will probably be pretty quick there.

And then things can bed down for Barcelona.

And then you're into the grind of the season where things are a bit more focused and where momentum starts growing.

catching up and as we saw last season these things swing between sides of the garages you'd have spells where Lando was great spells where Oscar looked like he was nailed on for the championship then it would come back the other way then it would go back the other way and it only takes one off a one-off race of some controversy or incident or something and that can define a whole segment of the season

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.