Mark Hughes

They're a bit of a porridge.

There's all sorts of unsatisfactory aspects to them.

And.

One of the things that strikes me is that from a long way out, maybe a year and a half, two years out, the drivers who are trying them in the Sims were all saying, this is not going to work.

It's going to be horrible.

This is going to be massive speed differences.

off battery to on battery.

You're going to have to drive very, very conservatively to get the ultimate qualifying lap.

It's not going to be a driving on the limit contest.

The overtakes are going to be meaningless.

These all came to be.

And yet at the time, the drivers were more or less told, yeah, don't worry.

By the engineers, we've got this.

This is just very early stages.

Just stay in your lane.

Don't make a fuss.

So it sort of speaks to how

The drivers, although they're an essential part of the show and what they're doing is at the core of why we're all fascinated by it, but they're not really given any real power.

How does that strike you?

Has that changed over time?