Rob Smedley
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That's the beauty of Formula One.
It's the same people.
They were the only ones, and us after a while, that ran a low ride height car in the rear.
Do you remember?
Yeah, yeah.
And won with it.
Everyone else did the Adrian Newey trick of high ride height in the air, rear, seal the floor aerodynamically, get more downforce.
They didn't, and they still won.
And then when the ground effect happened...
They probably didn't understand it as well.
Couldn't do it.
I love that psychology answer.
That's what I should have said.
But I'm going to tell you why I think.
They've done a great job on the powertrain.
Yeah.
And first time ever, there's a powertrain cost cap.
You can't infinitely spend your way out of a bad powertrain if you don't have a Mercedes because there's a cost cap.
So that'll hold some of the others back and will allow that advantage they have today to stay, number one.
And number two, there's also a freeze that comes in, a progressive freeze on the powertrain, first time ever.