Why can’t it just be all assisted and allow for much easier operation?
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Some of it is a bit of a legacy restriction – not allowing power assist on brakes. The problem here is that F1 teams are pretty smart. Once you have assisted braking, the concern is that teams will start programming the brakes to allow for automatic left/right and front/rear bias shifting or adjusting brakes according to temperature etc. This is basically traction assistance and (simplifying vastly) all the driver has to do is stamp the brakes really hard approaching every corner and let the electronics do the work for them. Some feel that this takes away from driver skill as a factor for F1 performance.
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