Ben Gilbert: observation

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…Yep. So bringing it back to the business narrative here, what are the kind of great ironies here of the obvious right decision to focus on safety and slow the cars down? Is it just further fuels this sort of spending spiral amongst the teams because the harder you make it to go fast, the more they're going to be incentivized to spend every last dollar and look in every last little corner and find every last little loophole to get an advantage? Yeah, I mean, when the sport first started, there were giant gains to pick up left and right and you could sort of do all sorts of crazy stuff. And we were talking about all the different car designs with spoilers that are up on giant poles and I mean, truly wacky ideas. There was a six wheeled car at one point, because it wasn't in the rules that you only had to have four wheels. And over time, as they start adding more and more guidelines for safety and for all these other reasons, the way to succeed in Formula 1 shifted from making a more powerful engine or figuring out the very best aero to figuring out how to exploit the rules. And do more and more exotic stuff.…

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