Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
The huge service buildings are for marketing ? I think they are for the team to make their jobs easier and more professional. And who of the public sees them, none just some rally fans..
Yes, big manufacturer teams invite their dealers from Rally country and neighbouring countries, offering them VIP packages and this all gives additional value for VIP package. With cold weather you can have opposite effect with such a building. In the tents you have always colder and climate is more similar to the oustide and it is bit harder to work for people. In such a service building, you tend to have warmer climate and every time you change the climate for your car rapidly, you risk that something might go wrong. Have you used photo camera? When it is really cold outside and you come rapidly inside, to a warm room, the lense or class will be misted, same can happen going outside. Imagine that the car with its thousands of components is like a big camera and you have huge number of places where you might have undesired results of such a rapid temperature change. So, working outside might have advantage