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Neil Oatley: designing World Championships with McLaren

F1: Beyond The Grid

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The Different Dynamics of a Championship Battle

I think we're lucky both that year and the year after we knew one of our two drivers were certainly going to win the World Championship. That created a sort of different dynamic than it would have been if we'd been in a big fight with other teams as well so things evolve quite differently. What's harder for a team? An intra team battle between your two drivers or an inter-team battle where one of your guys is fighting someone from another team. I would say definitely fighting another team because your responsibility to make a vehicle that's capable of beating the opposition really deviated from one another. And then what is it like to ride that crest of a wave where you go into every weekend

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