Jon Noble

We've, we're going to an energy starved track as well.

I think it's bottom three or four of the seasons.

It's going to be one of the worst that will expose how these regs really are and what changes, what the changes made from having improved or not improved and what difference it makes.

But I think it's going to be, you know, Mercedes upgrade, even without an upgrade, Mercedes still won in Miami, um, only just, but they still won.

Um,

They've got an upgrade coming and we saw the steps everyone else made with their upgrades.

So you'd anticipate Mercedes just keeps on rolling up.

McLaren with the new front wing should make a step as well because front wings are absolutely critical.

Ferrari we know is quite a draggy car, not great on engine power.

So it may have a more difficult situation.

Yeah, it's a fascinating one, both competitive-wise and politically-wise.

On the competitive side, it's been interesting that you go back to Australia and McLaren was shell-shocked by how far advanced Mercedes was in its...

understanding deployment.

I think you and I spoke to, oh no, you weren't there.

I spoke to Andrea Estella on Saturday in Melbourne, just talking about deployment factors and all the elements they hadn't understood heading into that weekend.

The difference of battery going into a corner at 98% versus 100% was six tenths of a second.

So all these tiny elements that they hadn't comprehended.

to be then turned around by Miami and they're unleashing deployment tactics that Mercedes hadn't considered and then have to shift to in terms of using energy on short straights rather than long straights and the benefits that can bring.

So there's some smart thinking there.

And politically wise, it's fascinating because we know that Mercedes wants to cut back on its customer teams for the next rule set, which means losing one of the current partners worldwide.