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Team manager Peter Crolla recalls Cadillac's real-time race rehearsals through 2025
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Cadillac didn't have a car last year, but it did have use of General Motors' simulator in Charlotte, North Carolina.
From mid-season on, this allowed the team to hone its procedures by following grand prix weekends in real time from bases on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
"We had an operations room running in Silverstone, and one in Charlotte," explains team manager Peter Crolla of what came to be known as 'rehearsals'. "Each rehearsal project grew - every time we did one, processes were more advanced, communication protocols were more advanced, the technology we had at our disposal was more advanced, and it was a fantastic rate of progression.
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