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Mar 2021
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This is a long read taken from RedBull.com.
When the F1 season started in Austria, coming back after the break due to Coronavirus, teams were very limited in the number of people they could bring with them. That only increased the importance of the ‘left behind’ operation back at the team HQ in Milton Keynes. As well as people who support designing, developing and constructing the car, there is a group stationed in the ‘Operations Room’ who play a key role. The Ops Room is not open to the public and what goes on there has always been shrouded in secrecy. Writer, Dave Rawlings, was given special access.
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