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F1: Teams to be charged for pitwall services

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Khatir Soltani
F1 teams are set to receive a bill for pitwall services that were previously provided free of charge from the FIA.

Italy's Autosprint reports that the affected services are the detailed live weather forecasts provided by Meteo France, as well as the GPS information about the location of cars on the circuits.

The detailed live weather forecasts are provided by Meteo France. Each minute an updated photogram of the atmospheric conditions lands on the team's computers.

At any moment the specific GPS service afford the engineers to know the exact position of every driver on the track. Teams can decide the best moment to call the driver to enter to the pits.





Khatir Soltani
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