F1’s algorithms spark driver fury as number neuters thrills of Spa-Francorchamps | Giles Richards

Computer-controlled energy deployment now dictates races – it turns out drivers don’t like Skynet controlling their cars Another race down another classic circuit, in this case Spa-Francorchamps, left neutered for drivers and so their slow, dissonant discontent rumbles ever onward. In the wake of the Belgian Grand Prix , there was an overwhelming sense they wished to simply escape. Not so much…