why in rally races there is a guy on a passenger seat explaining where to drive?
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Have you ever driven through mountainous roads?
When there’s a turn ahead, and thepuntain blocks your view, you’re not sure if a turn is going to be a slight turn or a hard turn. So to drive safely, you slow down.
The passenger is just a navigator so the driver can focus on driving fast instead of driving and paying attention to the next curvatures. The passenger will tell them “slight right” so the driver can maintain their high speed, or “hard right” at which the driver will slow down so their car doesn’t spin out when making the sharp turn. (Pretty sure the passenger uses more words, but that’s the simple explanation).
The driver can drive without the passenger, but going at high speed requires a huge amount of focus. The additional weight of a passenger is more valuable as a navigator, than driving solo with less weight.
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