Mark Hughes: F1's Inside Line
"The next race can render these theories as junk"
On the one hand it's one of the most measured, calculated and scientific endeavours in the world - with tons of raw data produced every day from wind tunnels, vehicle dynamicists, fuel and oil chemists, engine coatings specialists, materials technologists, brake engineers, tyre behaviour modellers.
On the other, it's just so much guesswork and chaos. There's a lot of post-dating theories onto observed phenomenon - a lot of explanations after the fact of why things worked out the way they did. But the next race can render these theories as junk.
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