Motorsport
Undercut or Overcut? The Pit Wall Maths Behind Every Grand Prix
A pit stop costs about twenty seconds. Whether it gains or loses a position depends on a calculation teams run thousands of times before the lights go out.
Motorsport
Tyre Whisperers: The Engineers Who Decide Sundays
Four patches of rubber, each the size of a paperback, carry everything a car can do. Meet the specialists whose job is keeping them in a ten-degree window.