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Title: FIA Race Control goes high tech
Post by: Scott on March 20, 2022, 09:53:00 AM
Just confused by the last bit - is he saying that the 'virtual race control' is more like a cool home theatre where its officials can watch the race?  They obviously have no input, so it's just another audience, but with a much better setup, right?  The FIA is such a duck and pony show...

“The idea came to me in January when I made a visit to some of the Formula 1 teams, and went to one of the launches,” Ben Sulayem said.

“I said, ‘what’s that, it looks like a theatre!’ and they said this is actually race control, but virtual. I said, ‘why don’t we have one?’ I said ‘do we have one?’ and they said no.

“So now we invested in it, and it’s actually working since yesterday. We didn’t promise and not deliver. We are delivering.

“So they will have another race control there. They will have also officials. They will have also from the legal department, and they will support. The virtual race control will not be running the race. The race will be run from the country itself.”


https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/fia-in-ongoing-talks-with-ex-f1-race-director-masi-over-new-position/9158671/
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