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jcfrei on May 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Search for the Extra Pedal (2017)

> It's so heavily regulated that professional racing is no longer an engineering challenge.

If you look at the different approaches taken with regards to aerodynamics (particularly this season) and engines then there's still plenty of room for engineering challenges (at least in F1, I don't know about other series).

beat on May 2, 2019 [–]

Meh. Introducing DRS because they've made overtaking too difficult? That's a kludge, not an innovation.

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