Formula 1 TV offers spectacular amounts of data on its broadcast screens. A lot of what appears is crucial but much of it is also useless. Vital timing info is forced to share that race-long rotisserie with how many pit stops each driver has made, what their present tyre compound is and some really unnecessary nonsense like car numbers and what car it is. Really…? Yet there's never anything on screen about the current status of the energy flow in the various cars. Odd that, considering that the very essence of modern F1 hinges around the cars' hybrid ability to harvest and utilise electrical energy to their advantage. How the teams manage that electric energy is fundamental to their...
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