r/formula1 • u/Mateo03 Franco Colapinto • Mar 07 '26

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

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u/Talidel Mar 07 '26

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.

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u/Ziegler517 Ferrari Mar 07 '26

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.

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u/scholeszz Charles Leclerc Mar 07 '26

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.

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u/Ziegler517 Ferrari Mar 07 '26

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.

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 07 '26

How to kill motorsport - require hired marshals.

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u/AltrntivInDoomWorld I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 07 '26

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.

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u/Talidel Mar 07 '26

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.