Mark Hughes

So you've got the Mercedes drivers who are in a great car.

So you've spent all this time trying to get to this position where you can have a tilt of the title.

Yeah.

Are you going to protest to change things?

You know.

Yeah, it was that you could be traded like a football team, trading a player between one team and another without the driver having a say.

That was the issue there, but it was very similar to that issue that you talk about.

So who would be the union leader, as it were?

So we're talking about moving it on from just this specific issue that we have with the power split at the moment to going forward.

So that this driver representative there, on any issue they may come up.

So if it was this… To have it in the structure of the sport.

Well, that's the other thing about the power structure, isn't it?

You talk about the three legs, the team bosses, the FIA officials.

And they've been there forever.

And the drivers, you know, with a few exceptions, Alonso and Hamilton, are very transient.

They're there for a few years and they come in young and ambitious.

Was it 20 years in the case of Fernando Alonso?

Yeah, exactly.

But that's, you know, they're by definition more transient.

And therefore not as empowered.