[pgcosta]

"It’s really the engineers making the pre-race setup for the car and making real time adjustments during the race"

"8.5.2 Pit to car telemetry is prohibited." source: http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/rules_and_regulations/tech...

"F1 drivers merely are “along for the ride”" This is wrong on so many levels. F1 is a very physically demanding sport. Their reflexes have to be as good in lap 40 as they were in lap 4. They need to perform changes to the car in real time, mostly between turns, as they're told. They need to know how to attack, defend, overtake, save tyres, save fuel.

The difference is that 10/15/20 years ago they did all this without not much data, and now they have much more context to each decision.

You clearly do not watch much Formula 1.