Formula 1 chief Ross Brawn believes reducing the amount of data available to teams should be put under consideration, following the exciting nature of the United States Grand Prix. Formula 1 teams were short on representative data at Austin, with Friday’s three hours of practice taking place in wet conditions, while temperatures on Saturday were far cooler than in the race. Kimi Raikkonen, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton adopted different tyre strategies to reach the podium places, with their varying approaches leading to a pulsating and tense race. Brawn has suggested that cutting back on data, therefore leading to more unknowns, could prove beneficial to the on-track product....
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