Jon Noble

So we may end up with a halfway house.

Yeah, you can't have bigger batteries and not change the chassis.

It's absolutely central to the car design.

Bang in between the floor and the fuel tank and the power unit where the MG UK is.

So if you want to increase that, you're going to need to change the chassis.

So this goes the same as handing over the other elements that if we're going to carry over chassis, if the conclusion is to carry over chassis into next year, you can't have a bigger battery.

And you can't have one size for qualifying and bolt an extra pack on the back.

It would have to be consistent between qualifying and race.

Two cars.

You have two cars back and you can go in the spare.

So the battery element is dependent then on the chassis regulations, which is then dependent on the cost cap.

So this is why there's a lot of work to be done to get this thing across the line.

And that's before we even start talking about Adewo.

I mean, the easiest solution is that you just lift the cost cap by X amount that's realistic for everyone to build a new chassis.

I don't think any team would complain about having the financial freedom to build a new chassis of a bigger fuel tank.

The decisions are being motivated by the fact that they're up against the limit of the cost cap and they don't want this extra spending into next year.

But if you pull...

Yeah, so this is why the movement needs to be done quite quickly on this.

So the Canada timeframe for getting a broad agreement we've hit, now it's a question of probably weeks, not months, to work out the framework to get both the chassis debate and the Addoe debate in it.

I think the more difficult aspect to resolve is Adewo because you've got a catch-up mechanism.