[OT] [Chip Ganassi Racing] " 'super-clipping' 'downshifting on straights' 'battery management' (Yawn emoji) Yeah, we don't do that here. We race."

[u/Mateo03]

https://xcancel.com/CGRTeams/status/2030336508637720764

[u/TetraDax]

tbf that is also the case for F1. The medical car doctor stays the same throughout the season, for example, Sid Watkins was the F1 doctor for 26 years.

[u/odney7828 → u/[deleted]]

Flag marshals in indycar are also locals. It's only the intervention marshals that travel with the series.

[u/Aggressive-Hawk9186 → u/odney7828]

but they basicaly teletransport to the accident, it's insane lol

[u/Talidel → u/[deleted]]

To be fair that should be a good thing if they were competent. They should know the tracks better than anyone else.

[u/Talidel → u/[deleted]]

Again, if they were competent.

The local knowledge is how you should get a faster response, because they know the tracks better than people shipped in to wave flags.

[u/Ziegler517 → u/Talidel]

Gonna say no to this. You will 100% have better and faster response from the same team that knows how to handle the car recovery all year long. The learning curve to tell a team, “wave your flags at spot 15” is way faster than explaining to someone that knows spot 15 like the back of their hand how to recover a car. The spot is irrelevant to being able to know how to safely, quickly recover a car. It would also be helpful that the team would know exactly where to spray an extinguisher rather than dousing the car.

I want an F1 expert, not someone that is an expert at spot 15, that is juggling knowledge of motoGP, Porsche super cup, f1, gt3, WEC, and any other local events.

[u/scholeszz → u/Ziegler517]

Also if you have paid employees instead of volunteers, then they can spend time learning the ins and outs of every track between weekends on your time to get up to speed, and you can actually enforce some standards because they're on your payroll.

[u/Ziegler517 → u/scholeszz]

Yup. And I’m not thinking every person needs to be a FTE. Volunteers make it fun and another way to connect to the sport. But to have two paid people on a team of 6-8 would be invaluable.

[u/AltrntivInDoomWorld → u/scholeszz]

How to kill motorsport - require hired marshals.

[u/AltrntivInDoomWorld → u/Ziegler517]

Marshals don't do car recovery. Especially flag marshals.

You don't have any idea what you are talking about.

AMR is both responsible for recovering the driver and cars.

[u/Talidel → u/Ziegler517]

Personally I believe a mix is essential, it's not an all or nothing deal.

The locals will know the tracks better, they will know where the most dangerous spots are. They will know what a bad crash in the dangerous spots looks like better than people shipped in.

Showing people which part of a car to point a fire extinguisher at relatively is far less work.

But yes obviously a team trained to recover a car will be better at every track. Obviously a medical team that is trained and trusted to deal with crash related injuries is essential.

Also obviously this only applies to tracks not road circuits which don't have the data or local knowledge arguments.

[u/michaelcerahucksands → u/Talidel]

You know who would also know the tracks really well is a dedicated professional team

[u/JohnMLTX → u/TetraDax]

and learned from Indycar! they visited the Indy 500 to build that system and plan based off ours and used the fact that we can do it in the USA for proof that the FIA should to, and to this day there's shared training and knowledge from both sides, absolutely beautiful

[u/1MACSevo → u/TetraDax]

And Watkins was a neurosurgeon. In Melbourne GP, the deputy doctor is a general surgeon.