Gravel trap: Keeping secrets
For me motor racing is a celebration of both technology and sport, but over the years the technology has been kept more and more secret. Reading over the last 25 years worth of Racecar Engineering magazines (as I do far too often) there is a big period from about 2001-2008 where technical images and detailed information about Grand Prix cars was clearly extremely hard to come by. The garages had covers in front of them, mechanics were told to block photographers or indeed any prying eyes and the whole thing was getting a bit silly. Formula 1 realised this and regulated against such behaviour and as you can see from looking around this website we now have great access to the technical details of the cars.
At Le Mans the situation was generally reversed, most teams would invite you into the garages to photograph the oily bits, a few mostly works teams would ban media from the garage, but that in my book is totally fair, its a place of work and you don’t want to be tripping over the likes of me trying to get that perfect shot of your intercooler. However in recent years the trend has been toward the bad old days of F1. Things first came to a head in 2008, we had three works teams in LMP1, Aston Martin, Audi and Peugeot, and none of them initially let us see their engines. This as you can imagine was a great frustration when you are trying to illustrate detailed technical articles about the design and construction of the various cars. Bear in mind that Racecar Engineer...
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