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They had less of an issue with turbo lag.

Getting rid of the MGU-H meant spinning up the turbo is harder this year, so spinning up a smaller turbo is easier, therefore less of an issue, i.e. bigger advantage.

Yeah.

But smaller turbo means a smaller output from that turbo, therefore less power.

But it makes sense in this modern era to use a turbo, right? To utilize those exhaust gases.

And particularly with the hybridization, I feel like they can figure out a way to reduce turbo lag with the hybrid power, right? That was sort of what the MGU-H did.

It helped spin up the turbo, right, with the electrical.

So surely they can bring a simplified version of the MGU-H to this new era, which would reduce turbo lag.

That's what I'm hoping happens.

Some kind of form of MGU-H returns, maybe a simplified version to satisfy the PUMs, you know.

But that's what I'm hoping.

V8, turbocharged... hybrid assist that helps with the turbo lag maybe abs uh adds like a little boost button to give you a little overtake button otherwise the cars look pretty good how they are the cars outside of the power unit that i mean i quite like the active error on the front and the rear all good cars being a bit smaller packaged smaller everything cool maybe they can make the cars a little bit lighter but anyway let's let's get to some quotes here because i don't want to get ahead of myself so FIA President Mohamed Ben Salayem outlined what he hopes to be the framework for this V8 return.

I can tell you that now, even at 60-40.

They just need to go back to 80-20 and get an MGU-H back on the car.

But they won't do that because, oh, Audi won't like it.

Sirosh again with his Pirelli tyre there.

It's not ideal, but you know, by 2030, we got something to really look forward to both the Rwandan or the African Grand Prix in Rwanda and hopefully a return to V8s with a little bit of electrical boost, probably turbocharged, probably lighter, simpler.

And yeah, my question is between now and then, could they bring the MGU-H back? They seem to have so many problems with spinning up this turbo.

I mean, they were talking in commentary that some of these guys can't do a spin turn because they don't have the turbo spun up.

That's how little power they have without that turbo spun up.

Half the time you see them just, oh, just whack it in reverse Terry, you know, and, you know, get out that way rather than do a spin turn.

But it's all a bit silly.

If they can bring the MGU-H back, it'll increase that ability to keep the turbo spun up.

It'll increase battery efficiency.

Simple as that

... is- is this the consequence that we're now facing for getting rid of the MGU- K- MGU-H, I believe-

Which-

... that they used to have-

But if it wasn't for Audi, and I guess you could also say Red Bull Powertrains, what's to stop Formula One, maybe not twenty-seven but twenty-eight saying, "Look, let's just go back to last year's, the twenty twenty-five power units"? They can't do that because Audi don't have one and Red Bull Powertrains don't have one.

But if it wasn't for that and the fact that Audi really were like, "Get rid of the MGU-H, we want to come in on an equal footing as much as possible with a brand-new power unit with everyone else having a brand-new power unit," I think it's just such a shame.

It's such a shame that they can't pivot.

Maybe in the next year, eighteen months, if the FIA said, "Look, this is a disaster.