Jon Noble

And there's no better place that he'd probably like to be than in a very successful Red Bull team for 28.

That's the impression I get, yeah.

Or is it an absolute genius move from Max Verstappen, well knowing that Red Bull's advantage is in the ICE, well knowing that if it can neutralise Mercedes' advantage by increasing the ICE power and pulling back the electric harvesting, which is the big fundamental change in the regs, that if he goes flat out against these regulations,

gets momentum behind rule changes.

Suddenly what was off the table for 28 is now on the table for 27.

So has he just pulled an absolute political blinder and engineered a situation that makes him think, yeah, we can get back to the front in 27?

I think there is a desire to keep Max Verstappen inside it.

And I'm convinced that he...

him speaking out so much triggered the momentum amongst other drivers to speak out.

I think F1 would have loved it if all the drivers had come out and said, these regs are amazing.

This is fantastic.

I love this battery world championship.

It's brilliant.

They didn't.

And Max Verstappen started that ball rolling.

Others have spoken up and had some confidence.

And I think what he says does matter because it sets the...

sets the mindset of the fans as well, because what the drivers think is often taken on board by the fans as what they see and feel as well.

So I think getting Max into a happy place has been viewed as an important thing for F1.

And it's also, I think, quite fundamental that if you read about the FIA's approach to these rule changes, you read the press releases, that