Why F1 risks giving fans a data overload
Formula 1's plans to give fans greater access to data might seem like a win on the surface, but does it run the risk of stripping away the element of surprise completely?
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Formula 1 is a sporting category that thrives on data. A car will not leave the garage without a host of sensors monitoring everything it is doing - with all that information rapidly fired back in real time to factories that can be thousands of miles away.
Whether it is car speeds, tyre temperatures, oil pressures, G-forces or even driver heart rate, during the course of a season trillions of pieces of information are transmitted around the world in the hope that a magic detail can help transform performance.
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