Mark Hughes
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Yeah.
You don't think it resonated with him on a personal level?
Yeah, you hear that a lot.
Yeah.
I think...
I think one of the reasons we've ended up with this unsatisfactory set of regulations is that it's had input from so many parties.
You've had the automotive manufacturers.
You've had the FIA.
You've had Formula One commercial management.
You've had team bosses, team engineers.
And there's sort of a โ almost designed by committee set of regulations.
And it's just been far too ambitious in trying to please all those parties.
And I think it almost needs โ
When you're defining how a formula is going to be for the next few years, it almost needs sort of a benign dictatorship.
But that's not what Formula One is now.
It used to be in the Bernie era, but in the Liberty era, it was...
The teams negotiated because of previous abuses of what they felt previous abuses of the FIA presidential power together with Bernie.
They wanted an entirely different system of governance and then negotiated for that and they've got that through liberty.
But it has led us to this place where that first set of regulations where that's really been set free has resulted in this.
You know, I think we โ it's sort of โ it's made it sort of stuck in place and I think really one way of breaking that impasse could be the drivers.