Formula One and Beyond by Max Mosley

Author:Max Mosley [Mosley, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471150210
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK

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CONFLICT IN FORMULA ONE

Even before that harrowing weekend at Imola in 1994, my resolve to stay out of Formula One after the 1991 election had been short-lived. Electronic systems, developed to assist the drivers, had become a genuine and growing concern. They were expensive but, more importantly, they were going to render much of a driver’s armoury of skills redundant. Pretty soon we would get to the point where there would in effect be a second driver in the car in the form of a computer, which would take over an ever increasing number of the tasks traditionally carried out by the driver. This is precisely what you want for road cars, where the more that can be done to assist the driver, the fewer the accidents and the better the traffic will flow. But motor sport is supposed to be a test of driving skill rather than a means of getting from A to B safely and efficiently on the roads.

Ayrton Senna found the increasing use of electronics worrying, even depressing, because he recognised that the new technology was bound to devalue the driver’s skill. At Christmas 1992, he sent me a card on which he had written by hand:

To Max,

92 wasn’t particularly great! Perhaps this is the time for a change. Rather soon before is too late. F1 cannot continue like this any longer, it’s got to change!

Ayrton Senna

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