Originally Posted by Sabre92:
“I think you'd need the radio to be there purely for safety reasons, if the team can see from the telemetry that a car's about to have a brake failure or have the suspension collapse then it's safer to have the team be able to tell the driver immediately rather than wait for him to see a pitboard, at which point it may be too late.
Perhaps a better thing to do would be to ban the radio except for when the team urgently needs to speak to the driver because of a safety problem with the car, and have it all monitored by the FIA to make sure it isn't abused.”
“I think you'd need the radio to be there purely for safety reasons, if the team can see from the telemetry that a car's about to have a brake failure or have the suspension collapse then it's safer to have the team be able to tell the driver immediately rather than wait for him to see a pitboard, at which point it may be too late.
Perhaps a better thing to do would be to ban the radio except for when the team urgently needs to speak to the driver because of a safety problem with the car, and have it all monitored by the FIA to make sure it isn't abused.”
They'd certainly get creative with code phrases.




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