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How to Ship an F1 Car Across the Globe in 36 Hours
- chiph 12y agoThe team chef will often buy food locally - sometimes because they have to. Team Sahara Force India spent $3700 on just their first trip to Costco in Austin. > “We couldn’t ship anything here to the U.S., so we had to start from scratch,” said Freeman. http://kxan.com/2014/10/29/f1-team-grocery-shops-for-race-weekend-spends-nearly-16k/ http://kxan.com/2014/10/29/f1-team-grocery-shops-for-race-we...
- evv 12y agoI wonder if this piece was sponsored by DHL.
- naich 12y agoUndoubtedly. I read the first paragraph and thought "this is a DHL advert".
- jonah 12y agoMany pieces in Wired seem that way these days. :-/
- johansch 12y agoThese days? Have they ever published a neutral, trying-to-be-objective piece on anything?
- pascal_cuoq 12y agoHow about http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html ?
- h43k3r 12y agoGet ready for tommorow's amazing race!.
- tw04 12y agoQ. How to ship insert item around the world really fast? A. Have lots of money.
- shittyanalogy 12y agoTLDR: take it apart and put it on a plane
- hnnewguy 12y ago>TLDR: take it apart and put it on a plane Yeah, I'm not sure why it's a surprise to anybody that you can load anything on a plane and get it anywhere in the world as fast as that plane can fly. What's with all these mediocre Wired articles making the first page?
- mikeash 12y agoIt reminds me of all those dumb patents that just take something normal and add "on the Internet." Buy books... on the internet! Move cars... by plane!
- spacefight 12y agoNative advertising, maybe?
- mschuster91 12y agoMay be a sponsored article, but still the massive scale that applies to F1 racing is mind-blowing. I had never thought it 'd require 30-50to material to be shipped across the globe - and it's not surprising many teams have financial problems.
- tobylane 12y agoOddly enough there was the first f1 news item about transport for a long time, this week. The team who were at the bottom of the leaderboard last year, and therefore had the lowest budget and highest debt, were trying to attend this weekend's season finale. They had the cargo at the airport, but not the funding. The funding came a few hours later and the plane had gone. That was how they knew they couldn't attend this weekend.
- sean_grant 12y agoI've heard some people complain that F1 and similar sports are a waste of money, but something to keep in mind about these events is their engineering all trickle down into modern day cars. Through the rules enacted, engineers must develop new ways to create fast, powerful cars. The new techniques and inventions all trickle down into the average consumer vehicles. I think it's wonderful that our sports are defining our future.
- flyinglizard 12y agoSame can be said for consumerism. Some argue its a waste and an environmental disaster that people change phones every couple of years, but it drives a technological development which trickles down to less lucrative, glamorous and mass market applications. No one would develop something like a Snapdragon processor just for medical devices, but once the technology is pioneered on phones, it can definitely be reused. Besides, our existence has no reason or cause other than having fun. And motorsport is awesome fun and entertainment.
- chillingeffect 12y ago> having fun. It could be argued that we could append to having fun "while keeping the planet alive." And F1 glorifies unsustainable habits and attitudes toward the planet. But other than that I agree with you.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoWell, in the first place, planets aren't alive, so they can't be kept alive. But stipulating some meaningful interpretation of "keeping the planet alive", why would that be a reason for or cause of human existence?
- TillE 12y agoSometimes. There's plenty of technical competition between engine manufacturers, but in most other areas the rules are so strict that there's little room for useful creativity.