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I've always found the safety engineering of motorsports more interesting than going fast.

Going fast is easy, so easy that most sanctioning bodies have long-ago capped the ways to go faster. Safety is the harder engineering problem to solve, and it allows for much more creativity.

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Aside from safety, Cornering speed is where things get really interesting. Formula 1 cars are exceptionally engineered to provide those high speeds even in tight corners. Plus those sub 2 second pit stops, 1/100 of a second difference in qualifying, overtaking with near inches from another car etc

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