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James Allison: "For an engineer, F1 is an unending work of invention and skill"

F1: Beyond The Grid

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The Limits of Formula One Regulations

I wouldn't say that particularly. People sometimes, I think, look back at the sport and pick out some big innovations. And in many ways, the sort of invention and skill that these rules force upon you is the invention and skill of a prisoner of war escape artist. The ingenuity is writ large across hundreds and hundreds of details in the car which add up to a lot of lap time. So I actually think the rules are a way of almost bringing the best out of people to find the opportunity when there's seemingly none. Do you find it intellectually stimulating what you do? Yes. This place, Mercedes? Mercedes, yeah.

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