I am currently watching the newest season of F1 documentary on Netflix and I noticed that teams keep telling their drivers to “push”.
So, what can the drivers do to actually “push”?
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There needs to be a certain conservatism when driving to not wear the tyres too much, not use up too much of the carefully calculated fuel amount, not wear out the brake disks by overheating them, and similar things. It’s not just a matter of going as fast as possible all the time. If the team think that they have something in hand, or need to open up a little more gap to make time for a pit stop they can tell the driver to be a bit more aggressive braking, corner harder or turn on a different engine software mode that gets better acceleration at the cost of extra fuel.
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