Guenther Steiner, Haas F1 team principal, Kevin Magnussen, Haas F1 Team, Nico Hulkenberg, Haas F1 Team and other team members at work
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Why the reality of F1 engineering debriefs isn't what Drive to Survive makes out

You might have seen snatches of team engineering debriefs on Drive to Survive but for the most part their contents remain hidden, even to Formula 1’s access-all-areas docuseries. Why? Because here the innermost secrets of car performance – and how to extract it – are revealed. Now, exclusively for GP Racing, ALEX KALINAUCKAS peers behind the veil…

Oh to be a fly on a wall in a setting as secretive as the Formula 1 paddock. Right now, perched behind a table in the computer-filled room constructed above the two Haas team trucks that form the race-weekend tyre store, GP Racing is finding out.

First practice for the British Grand Prix has just finished. Every F1 team is now holding the same meeting. One of 10 per weekend
which are critical to the outcome of each race and their seasons overall.

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