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McLaren Applied Technologies at Singapore Summit


Mercedes's pit-crew changes the tyres of British driver Lewis Hamilton's car during the second practice session of the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix night race on September 15, 2017.

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Mercedes’s pit-crew changes the tyres of British driver Lewis Hamilton’s car during the second practice session of the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix night race on September 15, 2017.

Data coming from the cars racing around the island-nation’s city-center will go through engine control units that Rhodes’ firm supplies to every team. Those units essentially end up becoming the data hub, he explained.

The data from the control units are sent in real-time to the track-side, pit lane and international factories, where mission control departments will utilize the information to help race teams improve performance and strategy, Rhodes said.

For example, mission control can figure out what’s going on in other cars, when drivers should change tires, and when engine power should be increased or reduced, Rhodes said.

“Each mission control unit will probably run 300,000 simulations — live — during the race to constantly advise their team on what to do next,” he said.

Essential to building the world’s fastest vehicles, Formula One technology has been sought-after by various global industries and is closely monitored by racing fans who attend the annual Singapore event, which was Asia’s first-ever street circuit.

The future of the race on the island nation was hotly contested over the past year amid declining attendance rates, but officials recently announced a four-year extension.

Aside from the data experiment, which is aimed at enhancing the human ability to make better decisions, aerodynamic designs and the relationship between software efficiency and a car’s cooling systems are some of F1’s other technological advancements, Rhodes said.

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