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It's astonishing how many people are working to keep the cars running on track. There's perhaps 50 people for each pair of cars, maybe even more, every time the
by exDM69 12y ago
It's astonishing how many people are working to keep the cars running on track. There's perhaps 50 people for each pair of cars, maybe even more, every time the cars are running on track. There's 5 guys on the pit wall, a dozen behind the pit garages and twenty or more at the teams' bases.
They make the tactical and strategic decisions on when to pit during the race as well as guide the car set up and tuning on Friday and Saturday practice.
Here's a few impressive videos from McLaren's mission control, located in their base in Woking, near London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYhl7csZJHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYhl7csZJHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ple7W6bdxJc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ple7W6bdxJc
- tlrobinson 12y ago"perhaps 50 people for each pair of cars" Well, yes. From the article: "the FIA - restricts them to 60 staff members at the trackside, including engineers"
- exDM69 12y ago> Well, yes. From the article: "the FIA - restricts them to 60 staff members at the trackside, including engineers" Does that include the people at the factory in the mission control? I don't think it does. McLaren's Mission Control (in the videos) already has about 20 people working. I didn't even count the actual pit crew in my estimate of 50. There's around 20 people in the pit crew.
- tlrobinson 12y ago> Does that include the people at the factory in the mission control? I don't think it does. Right, that was the point of the article... they can only have 60 people trackside, so they need all this bandwidth to send the data back to the factory where even more people can analyze it.
- atmosx 12y agoI don't think this applies for all teams. This must be true for the top-6, not for the rest which have considerably less resources.
- bowlofpetunias 12y ago"Considerably less" still means the smallest F1 team has more resources than the entire NASCAR and Indycar grid combined.