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The driver sets the car up... usually... in some teams, the engineer interprets the driver's thoughts/feelings and combined with the data, the engineer suggests and implements changes to the chassis setup
If you read the stuff Mr Tratt's business has been putting out to his sponosrs and suppliers.. the changes they were making to the #75 car were fairly basic... to suggest that the car "feels soft" and the answer is to stiffen both ends...
... now is that making the spring rates go up the same amount in ft/lbs at each end, or go thru the physics of how a car works on a race track, how weight transfer works... how putting different pressures on different parts of the car by "jacking it up" with ride height, or spring strength, or indeed some damper settings.... is the black art that sees the top engineering guys paid a zillion dollars a season for....
You get the impression that the "Garage2" inhabitants were not doing a lot more than sponging off the settings of Mr Richards...
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