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Mark Hughes

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
696 total appearances

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The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

All we have to โ€“ the only wriggle room we have is on the electrical side.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

And if we're talking about increasing the power of the engine, it's going to lead to all sorts of reliability problems and it's blah, blah, blah.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

The fuel tanks aren't going to be big enough because we're going to increase the fuel flow.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Some circuits won't have the capacity.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So we'd have to reduce the number of laps and โ€“

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

all those complications.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So they're saying that if you are only attacking that one side of the equation, there's not enough potential there to have any meaningful effect.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

You can improve it.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

You can improve it by increasing the harvesting rate and decreasing the deployment rate.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So, you know, okay.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

But it's fundamentally, you will still-

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Yeah.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Yes, as hard as possible out of the corner so that there will still be a reward for having more battery power at the beginning of the straight to last you longer down that straight.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

There'll be more lap time reward for that that you can coast through the previous corner to get that battery charge.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

So it's still fundamentally you're not going to โ€“ qualifying is not going to be determined by the ability to drive on the edge better than the next guy.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

And that's the fundamental, I think.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

That's what strikes at the heart of why this is.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

There's nothing they can do anyway.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

Yeah, I don't think they would be able to bring the season to a halt.

The Race F1 Podcast
How F1 drivers have lost their power - The Undercut with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes

But I think... Reserve drivers would be very happy.