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jyl, Steve Porino did a segment on the equipment NBC uses too keep in touch on the road with the riders, and with all their high tech gear, he said that they only have contact 30% of the time with the mother ship - and that includes using a Starlink connection mounted on the top of the car. His plea to Elon to provide better gear was pretty funny.
It was then implied that rider radios are no better than 30% contact - and I suspect that it is probably less than that and a source of frustration.
(An aside, one of the teams, can't remember which, maybe Uno-X, is experimenting with radios mounted in their TT helmets, with a button on the handlebar to open the channel.)
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