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“In the old days, they were just called developments. And that was a much better word because it is ultimately empirical engineering.”

Cameron Cc, at 5:36 of “WTF Happened To Mercedes? | Peter Windsor Reacts” on Cameron Cc’s channel.

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  1. 5:26 You know, it's an interesting point that ever since upgrades have been called upgrades,
  2. 5:30 colloquially by the world's media and the teams, not all of them work.
  3. 5:36 In the old days, they were just called developments.
  4. 5:38 And that was a much better word because it is ultimately empirical engineering,
  5. 5:44 because quite clearly it isn't, you know,
  6. 5:46 there's no direct correlation between a computer screen and what actually goes on on the track,

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