I was just watching a short Grand Prix clip and I find it laughable a person could possibly be making all the switches by hand. Is there some sort of software-hardware link with the cars and the track that technologically tracks which cars are in which position and how does that work? Like the race track isn’t a straight line or anything so it’s hard to imagine how it works.
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There are roughly 20 places on any Formula 1 track where there are sensors embedded in the track. Thats enough to automatically update the positioning, and also the time intervals, every 5 seconds or so.
The cars also have GPS on board, but as far as I can tell, that is only used for the moving-dots-on-the-circuit-infographic. While the sensor data is used for official rules purposes (mosty for the Virtual Safety Car, but also sometimes for things like determining the positioning after a red flag), it appears that GPS is not precise enough for that, and therefore relegated to the infographic thing.
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