Covert information gathering ...
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It happens everywhere it seems, though how the competition managed to install this without it being noticed is hard to imagine ...
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There are some great shots on the referenced site. It is especially well populated from the mid 90s.
http://paulwebbphotography.com/categories/browse/e...
There are some great shots on the referenced site. It is especially well populated from the mid 90s.
Nice
Actually your post reminded me of something I was thinking after reading that recent FIA transcript: what are the different ways (we know of) that F1 teams use to get information on competitors? I mean technically, not "hire a pretty girl to go ask some questions"
From memory the transcript mentions:
Actually your post reminded me of something I was thinking after reading that recent FIA transcript: what are the different ways (we know of) that F1 teams use to get information on competitors? I mean technically, not "hire a pretty girl to go ask some questions"
From memory the transcript mentions:
- Calculating speed (and gearing?) from analysing the sound from other engines. Do the teams get the same edited feed we see on TV or do they have access to all of the cameras individually?
- Determining weight distribution by watching a car being craned off the track.
- Not quite in the same vein - estimating pit strategy by watching the difference between Q2 and Q3 qualifying laps. Somehow.
Thanks, Exige46. Hadn't really thought about spotters (and microphones!) around the track.
I still wonder if the teams get the feeds from all of the cameras or if they've got their own people out and about filming things. I guess they get the same feed as we do considering that's what the drivers always seem to be watching while sat in their cars, but it seems a bit odd.
I still wonder if the teams get the feeds from all of the cameras or if they've got their own people out and about filming things. I guess they get the same feed as we do considering that's what the drivers always seem to be watching while sat in their cars, but it seems a bit odd.
Teams have analysts why spend their time looking at the competition, and working out what they are doing via clever computer simulations.
They don't need any "historic" dossiers of information written months before the season started as that information will be out of date before the first practice session, let alone qualifying or the race.
There are people milling around the weighbridge who relay "what they see", I've even heard of weighbridge calibration engineers being offered "the earth" to rig the scales to either make a competitor overweight, or their own car read right when it's underweight.
Many of the media-tabard people are allied to teams, and they are their gathering data covertly all of the time.
It's cloak and dagger, no two ways about it. Only this crap in the press at the moment has blown things out of all proportion.
Though they say that any publicity is good publicity.
I wonder how much McLaren have been paid to "not appeal".
They don't need any "historic" dossiers of information written months before the season started as that information will be out of date before the first practice session, let alone qualifying or the race.
There are people milling around the weighbridge who relay "what they see", I've even heard of weighbridge calibration engineers being offered "the earth" to rig the scales to either make a competitor overweight, or their own car read right when it's underweight.
Many of the media-tabard people are allied to teams, and they are their gathering data covertly all of the time.
It's cloak and dagger, no two ways about it. Only this crap in the press at the moment has blown things out of all proportion.
Though they say that any publicity is good publicity.
I wonder how much McLaren have been paid to "not appeal".
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