ARTS & WEEKEND At the back of the ING Renault Formula One garage at every race is a glass-fronted booth like the producer’s cubicle in a recording studio. A small number of invited guests is placed in this hothouse to observe the workings of the race team.
A member of the team’s office staff conducts you through a maze of cabling and stacks of tyres. You are ushered into a seat facing banks of screens, some of which are full of running data, covering the lap-times of all the cars on the circuit, while others are television screens that carry pictures of the action on the track. You then put on a heavy headset through which you can listen to radio exchanges between the drivers and the team managers.
