Scott Mitchell-Malm

The teams didn't because the teams aren't manufacturers.

So why would they get that initial assessment?

So I know there were people in teams that were discovering it on Sunday evening in Monaco.

And that's why it was such a surprise to people because they hadn't had that information in advance.

And when they got it, they were like, well, how have they come to this solution?

So...

It is quite messy and I am very curious to see what the fallout is politically, like what we see when it's finally communicated and then in the coming days, maybe even weeks and months as people try to argue it or work it out because it's not set in stone, like this is the only judgment now that happens over the rest of the year.

It's quite curious, quite a curious situation overall.

so what would have happened if they hadn't been granted their upgrades if it had been found that they were not behind not sufficiently behind what they've already done the upgrade so what happens then so my understanding is that because the first of all there was obviously for a lot of the manufacturers maybe maybe not so mercedes i would imagine there has to be have to be some people at mercedes that are even surprised that they get to

to do something but i believe the rest of the manufacturers had already committed to upgrades on the expectation they'd get something because basically they the plan was to spend the money and the dyno time in advance and then if you don't get the upgrade you're then in trouble for next year because you can't bank you you've that's got to come out of the the like the engine cost cap and the way that you're doing so you'd have to park the stuff that you're doing at the

In terms of actually introducing it as a spec change, because that is what... It's only Aduo that allows you to do that.

There was a suggestion during the Monaco weekend that there'd been a little bit of softening about what you could potentially do this year as part of a bunch of the... A lot of the shenanigans Ed mentioned in the background, because obviously...

parallel to this there's the discussion over trying to get the engines changed for 2027 and there are some holdouts on that front and aduo is a part of that because the only mechanism that teams have to be able to improve or change their engine specifications is aduo but then if you give some manufacturers loads of license to do a load more well they're going to be able to massively optimize their engines for brand like a significant departure to the rule so all of this was going on

So there was a bit of a suggestion that some manufacturers that may have felt screwed over in some way might have been helped, but I don't know where that lands now, because obviously we have a ruling that gives everybody except Red Bull the chance to do something.

But it could have got quite messy, and this was...

Also, one of the reasons why it was a bit silly that there was briefly that limbo period where the calendar had changed because of race cancellations, but they were arguing over whether that impacted the point of the annual measurement and therefore when the assessment would come in, when people would be allowed to do upgrades.

It's...

Again, I don't want to be too critical because it's been a really weird kind of moving situation over the last few months for various reasons.

But regardless of the intent or the execution of it in terms of the officials and the governing body, it's just ended up being messy, hasn't it?

Whether that was avoidable or not, it's just part of this un...