15th March 2012
Seconds count when it comes to international sports!
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.
Ivan Lendl
In car racing, a car may meet with some problem like a flat tyre. Depending on the type of racing, the size of the pit crew will differ. In Formula One Series, 19 trained mechanics will make the pit crew working as a team with perfect delegation of responsibilities.
Each tyre will be attended by three mechanics – one to use the pneumatic wrench to remove the wheel's lug; one to take off the used tyre; and the third to reinstall the new tyre. Two mechanics will be lifting the car, one in the front and the other at the rear. One mechanic will function as the starter man and another as the fuel man. While these mechanics are allotted specific and precise jobs, a `lollipop man' will be guiding the driver to slow down, to brake, to stop etc. The balance mechanics will be deployed with very specific responsibilities to save every millisecond of the tyre changing and the refueling process!
You've heard the proverb `too many cooks spoil the broth'? Not when they are trained well as to what and how to do their jobs!
I have a story to tell you to explain how to bench mark the pace of our work!
N C Sridharan
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