Ironing out the basics
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Just watching a replay of this year's Spanish gp on skysports f1, Riccardo being told by his race engineer he needs to either pass the person in front (bottas I think it was), or drop back to a 2 seconds gap by his engineer.
Surely the hierarchy must be sitting there and thinking there's something fundamentally wrong if teams are needing to carry out such tactics to 'win the war' at the end of the race...
Are we going to see a time where the current crop of great drivers will be able to race without being given such instructions, and without being given telemetry by their engineers which instructs the drivers which gear they need to be in which corner to get the quickest lap times?...
Surely the hierarchy must be sitting there and thinking there's something fundamentally wrong if teams are needing to carry out such tactics to 'win the war' at the end of the race...
Are we going to see a time where the current crop of great drivers will be able to race without being given such instructions, and without being given telemetry by their engineers which instructs the drivers which gear they need to be in which corner to get the quickest lap times?...
Back to basics eh... 
It's not just about the drivers though is it?
Lets say in your ideal world they decided to do that. Then if as seems quite possible human nature being what it is, teams were able to 'advise' their drivers by some means to gain advantage over the others not having access to such advantageous advice......
Not so much back to basics, back to square one.
It's not just about the drivers though is it?
Lets say in your ideal world they decided to do that. Then if as seems quite possible human nature being what it is, teams were able to 'advise' their drivers by some means to gain advantage over the others not having access to such advantageous advice......
Not so much back to basics, back to square one.
A thoroughbred race car works best in cool clean air; dirty air affects cooling, aero and tyres have to work harder.
I'm not sure whether telemetry is all to blame. NASCAR bans it. Crew chiefs and top engineers sit in their pit stalls with laptops in front analysing data and crunching numbers - its often that a crew chief will ask a driver to save fuel fuel as much as possible.
I'm not sure whether telemetry is all to blame. NASCAR bans it. Crew chiefs and top engineers sit in their pit stalls with laptops in front analysing data and crunching numbers - its often that a crew chief will ask a driver to save fuel fuel as much as possible.
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