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OT Some years back I was given a tour around the McLaren workshop. The work that goes into those machines is impressive to say the least. I knew a guy on the e
by aidos 9y ago
OT Some years back I was given a tour around the McLaren workshop. The work that goes into those machines is impressive to say the least.
I knew a guy on the electrical testing team and he said that they had just spent the better part of 2 weeks tracking down a single misfire from a race. Turned out two tracks on a PCB were slightly too close together.
- jacquesm 9y agoHow on earth did they manage to locate that fault? That would be an awesome story to be told in detail.
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- myrandomcomment 9y agoThe amount of sensors they have on the cars is insane. Each race they basically set up a data center in the paddock. Then that is remote linked to the teams HQ DC over MPLS links. Here is a quick bit about it. http://en.f1i.com/magazine/73067-f1-telemetry-data-race.html http://en.f1i.com/magazine/73067-f1-telemetry-data-race.html
- hordeallergy 9y agoI've tried suggesting to smaller teams on social media that they make their data public. What do they have to lose? No responses.
- aidos 9y agoI have no idea actually. The kit they had was amazing though. My favourite was the machine for testing their radio link. It was a long room full of baffles and at one end they put the receiver. At the other end was a large machine that spent all day shaking the life out of the transmitter. In the electrical testing room they had a few car simulators that effectively had the whole car in (they were about 5 ft tall from memory, large boxes). The could start them up and run the entire system physically.