Does anybody else find it strange?
It's noisy, it's hot (or cold), it's wet, it's windy, it's rainy.
You'd think if they want to manage the race effectively, it'd be better to be inside the garage where they can hear each other talk, sit in air-conditioned comfort and communicate with the pit crew directly instead of via intercoms.
Regardless of extensive data gathering and analysis humans still operate off intuition, hunches, heuristics in many cases.
Data is sometimes used to justify decisions made by the seat of the pants.
By being connected to the sights, smells and sounds of the race in progress they are able to feed the human (non-data) senses and inform their intuitive side.
Plus they are racing fans like us, who would be crazy not to take the best seat in the house
Edited by Murl, 14 March 2015 - 05:08.