The red herring reality of McLaren ‘mini-DRS’ saga
The focus around McLaren’s ‘mini-DRS’ grabbed the headlines throughout the Singapore Grand Prix – despite it never being a factor at that event due to track characteristics. With the team agreeing to make revisions for the next time it will use that specification of rear wing, it concludes a chapter of Formula 1 technical intrigue and distraction
McLaren’s ‘mini-DRS’ has been a big talking point in Formula 1, but it’s not the big reason the team is winning.
The philosophical idea of reductionism, which is something that happens in F1 a lot, is to try to produce simple explanations for very complicated ideas. The outcomes of wars, the causes of disasters, and the reasons why grand prix cars win races are all too often assigned to a lone decision or a single aspect – rather than being the culmination of thousands of factors coming together to deliver the final outcome.
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