FORUMULA ONE THE FASTEST R&D LAB ON EARTH
It was often suggested that motor racing technology would trickle down to the road car world – sooner or later. The "smart suspension" developed by Williams in the early 90s was a breakthrough innovation that helped the team win 2 world titles in 92 and 93. It is now a common feature in most commercial cars today. However, the challenges of racing were often too specific or costly for industrial-scale production. Carbon fibre, introduced to F1 in the 1980s, has only recently been introduced to mass production. This has changed in recent years. Since the introduction of full hybrid powertrains, F1 technology has become more relevant for road cars than it has ever been before. While many organizations are asking “What’s our Digital Strategy?”, at F1 now “Digital is the Strategy” – and it is at the forefront of technologies now transforming everything from road cars to consumer electronics, from medical technology to smart cities it begins with design. Every one of some 15,000 components of an F1 car has a digital twin, on which simulations are run before the part is made. And the process is ongoing: by the end of the F1 season over 80% of those parts may be modified. That is the pace of development.
Data Is The New Oil Formula One cars are probably the most connected cars in the world.
With 300 sensors on each F1 race car generating more than 1.1 million data points per second transmitted from the cars to the pit, F1 is a truly data-driven sport. Machine Learning in its simulation process gives F1 new insights and into more than 550 million data points collected through more than 5,000 single and multi-car simulations - from forces and displacements, temperatures and pressures to control parameters for the power unit and gearbox as well as driver inputs. F1 also uses 70 years of historical race Big Data, analyzed by complex models and shared with fans as rich data insights that reveal the nuances of split-second decision making. The problems may be different, but the tool sets are the same as will be used for human health data.
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