Jon Noble

There is an awful lot of references now to feedback from drivers, the dialogue with drivers, that the relation of the drivers has never been closer.

They've been listening to the drivers.

They want more impact, input from the drivers.

So I think Max is feeding into this quite a bit.

So what he thinks does matter.

And I think this is what's been shaping this move.

I think it would have been impossible...

to think if we'd gone into Melbourne, all the drivers were gagged and saying happy things about these regulations, couldn't complain about power limited pending and accidental overtakes and qualifying being terrible and your soul being sapped away as the car speed falls away.

We wouldn't have ended up in a scenario where potentially the 50-50 split that was the beacon of these regulations is effectively binned and trying to get shifted away for the start of next year.

Yeah, I think in Max's head, the ideal scenario isn't we get to next March and he's sat on his yacht in Monaco having a good time with the family.

His ideal scenario is that F1 regs are in a place where the driver can...

get back to driving a car on the edge and feeling that every lap is, you know, as far as they could take it with a Red Bull team around him that's able to fight at the front and he can go out and win and enjoy it and feel like this is pure racing.

I think that's his ideal scenario.

But there may be facts outside his control that force him down the path where he needs just to step back and

See where the land lies.

I don't think the Red Bull form is the key.

I think the key thing is this regulation shift that has –

Has the situation now changed a bit because the direction of travel is to step away from the core elements that he doesn't like?

So I think whereas back in March time, start of the season, we absolutely hated these regulations.

And it seems that...