Scott Mitchell-Malm

But one thing this circuit does have that's similar to Suzuka is you've got a really, really, really long straight, one heavy braking zone, and then another pretty long run from that final real corner in Miami down to turn one.

And if you did dump a load of battery down that back straight, because it's the top of my head, I think, if you've got your battery there, you couldn't deploy all the way down most of that back straight in Miami and then have anything left, basically, for the run to the line.

So you will still have a bit of back and forth, or you should still have a bit of back and forth.

If someone does want to chance their arm and just spend that little bit more

on that bit to make the move into the final corner, and then back themselves to try and hang on on the run to turn one, there will be a trade-off.

And the way that McLaren put it, it was Mark Temple, I think he's the technical director for engineering, with the way that their structure is, you'll still have some of that, but it'll be more strategic.

And he was kind of optimistic it'll be a better version of it, because I think it'll make more sense.

So yeah, you might have...

yo-yoing still but if we do have it it'll hopefully be a bit more of a means to an end rather than just two cars keep trading places and it doesn't actually matter because it never actually fundamentally changes the position of the two cars whereas maybe we'll have like a little bit more of it bit more back and forth and then there will be an actual position change that sticks

Sorry to burst Ben's bubble as he celebrates there for you audio-only consumers of this podcast.

Tentative.

Yay!

Come on!

Go on, have your moment.

Accelerate it.

I believe that there is almost uniform agreement that this has to be phased out eventually.

It's just a matter of whether it comes sooner rather than later.

And naturally, those that are benefiting from nailing this formula...

We'll want it to stick around for a bit longer than just one year when we're talking about, you know, what can change for 27.

I think it would be kind of like a soft correction of exactly what it was because it's sort of one thing we did during this gap was I spent ages researching kind of basically the last six years of discussions around these rules and how they came to be.