Racing Donut Race Review

When a race car driver talks to his crew-chief while racing or practicing, do the other teams listen in on that conversation for strategic reasons?  Will one team see what another team is doing on the track, hear the conversation along with the plans to fix that car or truck?  Will that conversation tell everyone with a scanner, what’s thought to be wrong, and the fix they will try?

Why not keep those conversations secret, how about a driver telling his crew-chief, “Hey, tell Grandma there is a snake in the mailbox” and “let’s make sure we pick up bread, milk and eggs on the way home”, which really means that the car is pushing like a dump truck so make adjustments, add fuel, four tires and clean the windshield.  Could this type of coded communications keep adjustment secrets from the competition and offer the team a small edge?

Just a thought.