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And therefore they've gone, well, look, why don't we call it super?
And then nobody will notice.
This is the energy equivalent of lift and coasting the entire season.
But the thing is, they're not even lifting.
They've got foot flat to the floor.
I mean, how depressing must it be for the F1 drivers themselves to just be like... It's literally powering down.
It is...
It's sad to watch.
It's one of the worst things for sure about these regulations because we have, well, I've watched Formula One for 30 years.
You, Tommy, probably similar.
And everything I've ever watched has been about speed and has been about, especially on a Saturday,
watching these drivers wrestle whatever car it is sometimes it's a boat sometimes they're nimble but it always came down to watching these drivers at some point driving these cars to the limit and we don't see that anymore at any point because there is no reason to because they are running out of power and therefore we're not seeing them at top speed flying through the fast left right of that I guess the start of the last sector in Australia for example like we're not
These are epic corners being reduced to, as Fernando Alonso said, a chef could do it around these corners.
Yeah, like this is...
It's insane.
Again, we've got a lot of things to get into in this podcast, but this one, I don't have a suggestion for it.
Of course, F1, the FIA, they are meeting to see whether there can be less reliance on the battery.
But there will always be super clipping.
I can't see a way, unless they rip out the battery and make it 100%, well, not even 100%, but a lot more to do with the internal combustion engine.
I don't see a fix for this.