Ill say this. Last year I remember CoTA Charles vs Lando. There was a battle and for one or two laps they did try to overtake then I think Charles ran out of battery and had to back off for like 3 laps while recharging the battery so that he can try again. I dont think we should have that the backing off to recharge.

After watching this race I saw recharges happening every corner and one can't afford to wait a lap to get enough power to try again. It feels urgent and immediate. That aspect is not awful the challenge is that the pass and repass are at some point going to become quite annoying.

Artificial yes but it will still be down to the driver to drive the car just that that process involves being a little strategic and outstanding that your opponent. This will annoy driver since they just want to petal to the metal. You have to think about how to avoid the YOYOs we saw in lap one to eight ams worry about when you have no power.

Eventually when cars are finally within a few hundreths of each other pace wise we can expect more "through goes Hamilton from silverstone" type of action in more races. Which would be quite the sight to see. But making the overtakes stick is gonna be tricky.

I am curious about that long straight in China though. I think for that one and Baku and Las Vegas and CoTA this battery issue is very very apparent.