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by aasasd 1335 days ago
At the Baku Formula 1 race this year, the Alpha Tauri team taped together the rear wing on Yuki Tsunoda's car when it began flapping around—perplexing some fans. (Dynamic adjustment of the wing didn't work after that, of course, and more importantly Tsunoda finished thirteenth outside of the points, making the effort moot.) In the discussions, it surfaced that ‘speed tape’ is what's used in F1, also with some educating photos like an airplane turbine being sealed with such tape.
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13th is still respectable, and if the people in front had issues they would have gone up in the ranks - better to finish in less than ideal circumstances than not try at all.
Eh, five drivers retired from that race, including both Ferraris—so Tsunoda was in fact third last, ahead only of young Schumacher and Latifi. I mean, it was an okay try, but regrettably it went nowhere.
Young? I'm pretty sure he was racing when I was a child 30 years ago.
That's the not-young one. This year's Mick Schumacher is Michael's son. In fact, he's thirty years younger.
There's a driver at age 30 and has a son 30 years younger than him who also drives?
The father (Michael) is 53, and he has been paralyzed for almost 10 years after a skiing accident.