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"Personnel Best" (Page 3)
Graham Smith, chair of the Society of Sports Therapists and founder of the Physiotech centre in Glasgow, UK, explains: “Sports therapy is massively important in all sporting sectors. Effectively everyone in the motorsport team has to be looked after. Mechanics play a massive role in maintaining the car and sometimes the difference between winning and losing a Grand Prix can come from which team makes the quickest pit stop.
“The speed that the mechanics are able to change the tires at, and put the fuel in, basically meant that at this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Alonso came out of the last pit stop ahead of Schumacher. If the mechanics had been less fit, had been one second slower, Renault wouldn’t have won that race.”
Dean Slavnich
