The Perils of Assumption
This has been a season where we've learned to expect the unexpected, and no race has epitomised that as aptly as the Hungarian Grand Prix did on Sunday. Richard Barnes reflects on the significant issues to come out of the weekend
Perhaps it is humanity's intrinsic desire to seek order and find patterns in the random chaos of real world events. Perhaps it is because, in a highly-engineered endeavour like Formula One racing, such precision parts should fit and work together unerringly to an established and predictable standard.
Whatever the cause, observers of the sport have always made assumptions and been confident that those projections would hold good. Senna would be fastest over a single lap in qualifying, Schumacher would prevail in the rain, Jean Alesi would pick the wrong team at the wrong time, and a particular driver or team would win a grand prix because it was 'their' track.
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