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Smedley: F1 is a team sport with 500 people in the team

Williams' Head of Vehicle Performance Rob Smedley has pointed out that Formula 1 is a team sport despite the fact that every Sunday two drivers get all the attention, arguing that the sport has moved on and there is no turning back to embrace the past. Smedley said in an interview, 'Everyone wants to go back to a Formula 1 that doesn't exist anymore, when we had carburetors, when we had throttle linkages which were mechanical linkages, rather than the incredible complex cars we have now.' 'We've gone to something else. It's a team sport, and we have 500 people who work in the team. If you take this inane argument that the drivers are alone in the car, then why don’t we take a step back...
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