Mark Hughes

Is there any truth where there's happiness?

Is there any happiness where there's truth?

Yeah.

We've got to go there.

But it's put itself in that straitjacket, hasn't it?

It didn't need to.

It's, you know, when I think it was Tom Bassus saying, you know, we felt that the

Automotives were holding us to ransom a little bit.

Well, they could have just walked away from it or not paid the ransom.

In real politic, in the way the world actually works, yes, of course, you were trying to please everyone.

But I think it was...

obvious to quite a lot of engineers and quite a lot of drivers who tried them on sim it's not going to work it's really going to be problematical and those fears were being confirmed so I think yeah we've Formula 1 has been very quick to address it

which is good.

And I think it's now acknowledging the problem as well, which is good because it didn't do so initially.

And I think we're on the right trajectory, but I think it could take a while to get back to where it needs to be.

Now you're going to change the rules.

Well, that's always, yeah, I mean, you know, that was always the...

You've got to ignore that, haven't you, if you're a legislator?

You've got to ignore the fact that some people will take it personally that they've been disadvantaged by the change.

Yeah, that's just how it is.