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Ben Gilbert: belief

2 Mar 2026 Acquired Formula 1

“I think in sport, yes, you always want the most talented and highest performing team to be able to win.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
2 Mar 2026
Publisher
Acquired
Episode
Formula 1

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…Yeah, which I think is what you want when you're designing a league. I think in sport, yes, you always want the most talented and highest performing team to be able to win. And you don't want structural barriers or advantages, in a way that you sort of do want if you're a capitalist investor. Let's narrow this at least to the front half of the grid. Put the bottom teams that are kind of always the bottom. There's definite negative power spirals for the bottom set of teams. But for the top half of teams, over the arc of a couple seasons, there is transference among that set.…

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