Anderson: How the big F1 teams get it wrong
AUTOSPORT's technical expert GARY ANDERSON explains how megabucks teams can still trip themselves up with slow decision-making and inflexibility once a plan is in place
When you're sitting on the Formula 1 pitwall, as I was for many years, calls have to be made that can make or break an entire race weekend.
So what happens to teams and their drivers, who are, after all, just another member of the squad, when spur-of-the-moment decisions must be made?
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