An F1 Driver Is Not Alone in the Cockpit During a Race. What Happens in the Lap Timer
On a typical race weekend for Ferrari in the World Championship, you will find the race with an F1 driver on the team at the center of the story.
There are the moments of pure thrill: He took out his team mate’s front wing on his way to fourth on the grid, had some mechanical problems to work out but came home to score a dominant win for the team, took the flag for his team in the race and then handed it to his team mate, as he did again the following weekend.
But on the other hand, there are the moments of uncertainty, when everything seems to be going well at the race center, when the team knows what it has to do, when they know what they have to do to win the race, when things are going in the direction they want them to go, when the team is in the process of winning and suddenly the team loses a couple of places.
For example, the following races, the drivers on the team could not win, were not in the hunt, lost positions, because of a single lap error, or a bad qualifying attempt for one of the many reasons.
I have been a fan of the F1 story for a long time and to me it is more than an obsession. It is a passion and I know that for most of us it is also a job – one that could come to the end. But even as a fan, I find myself constantly worrying about the future of the sport and about the life of those who live it.
Like for many fans, my day to day news is dominated by the F1 story, which has to be one of the most popular and influential sports stories on the web. It is on YouTube and its coverage is watched in the press all the time, as it is on ESPN and in newspapers around the world. It is an amazing phenomenon and to this day it is one of the most visible aspects of