Mark Hughes

We're not seeing the potential of that because of this other new problem that we've introduced with this over-ambitious power split.

And talk to engineers that haven't got an axe to grind.

They're saying, you're not going to fix this by fiddling about with energy recovery and deployment and battery storage.

Those things are fundamental to those traits that you're seeing.

are fundamental how it is.

You would have to radically change it.

You'd have to seriously up the amount of internal combustion engine power so that you completely change the power split, which is getting away from what we're trying to do to appease the manufacturers.

But that's what I think, come back to the point of the, they tried to please, tried to tick too many boxes in configuring this.

regulation set.

They're talking about, what if we put energy recovery on the front axle?

That would cure some of the problems, but it would introduce others.

You've got the potential problem then in reducing stability control and wiping out the difference in skill between drivers, because you could offset the axles and between the axles, and if you've got the software, clever enough.

So I think it really, really needs...

a rethink from basics and I don't think you're going to get that without some sort of disruption and the only... What do you mean by disruption?

Well, I'm talking about the drivers being the disrupting factor and acting...

They are really talking about their options in the short term, i.e.

for this season.

seem to be just on the electrical side of the equation.

So you have the energy equation with the electrical on one side and the mechanical on the other.

And they're saying...