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I would honestly prefer to watch an F1 competition where we get to watch all the back-room engineering and support infrastructure than the actual F1 car on the track itself. I've always been a fair-weather F1 watcher, but I'd really dig seeing more of what goes on behind the scenes as part of the battles between engineering teams.

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Secrecy is an inherent factor in F1 - no team wants to give away valuable data to their rivals.

If you're interested in the technical side of the sport, there are many journalists providing very detailed analysis. Craig Scarborough, Matt Somers, Steven de Groote and Ted Kravitz spring to mind, but there are plenty of others.

Yup, it's all shrouded in huge secrey because it's each team's differentiating factor given that the cars are so standardised. It doesn't reduce how much it fascinates me :)

I will check out some of those journalists. Thank you for the suggestion, I greatly appreciate it!

Same here. I like the tech and the cars more than watching the sport. Documentaries are great though.

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