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Originally Posted by chavez
Overall, the sport has not benefited from the greater role played by engineers, strategists and other advisors, especially in their ability to communicate with the drivers in real-time.
We might recall the F1 tried to limit what could be discussed between driver and engineer in the race, but the team claimed that such a limit was a safety issue and the restrictions fell away.
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It went away because it was stupid! Or at least the way they tried to do it was.
The safety thing was not really the issue. That’s like that banning of Christmas stories.
The main problem is that we’ve got a handle on how things work now. Tyres, aero, etc…
Not that I’m against a ban of pits to car radio. Let the person who knows how to boringly save the tyres without the engineer telling them win.
