In-race front tyre temperature camera the new trend?

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WhiteBlue
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Re: In-race front tyre temperature camera the new trend?

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flynfrog wrote:most teams use the cameras for testing and practice.
But the particular issue of this thread is the use by Mercedes on their standard front wing.
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Just read in the Germany GP thread that IR cameras can see the formation of a life-threatening standing wave. My cheapskate vision of IR arrays cannot do that. I yield.

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WhiteBlue wrote:
flynfrog wrote:most teams use the cameras for testing and practice.
But the particular issue of this thread is the use by Mercedes on their standard front wing.
then why are you talking about setup in practice? My point was even with all of this data they have a limited bag of tricks to do anything about it.