This weekend, all eyes will be drawn to Miami, as international celebrities will come to the city to participate in F1. Due to the "Netflix effect" of F1, this European racing event has attracted a large number of American fans. This successful franchise project has stimulated some of the most attractive competition in modern streaming media and has just renewed seasons 5 and 6.
This in turn has attracted a new class of technology sponsors, including Google, Amazon, Dell and Oracle, which can use their computing power to analyze 100000 data points per second generated by these $20 million machines. This means that the 2022 F1 calendar is not only a celebration of speed, but also a victory in mathematics, science and data every weekend from February to November.
In addition, the technology tested on the track - evolving due to the changing regulations of the regulatory agency - tends to penetrate into passenger cars, so what is displayed today may appear in the exhibition hall tomorrow.
Here's the best technology people found around the hard rock stadium in Miami International Motor City this weekend.
McLaren
McLaren's F1 Team benefited from partnerships with Google and Dell this year. Google marked the mcl36 car driven by Lando Norris and Daniel Ricardo with the logo of Android and Chrome browser. Its main color revolves around the wheel cover. Due to the new regulations of this season, the wheel cover returned to F1 car for the first time since 2009.
Now, due to years of cooperation, the relationship has become more in-depth.
Nicholas, the vice president of Google, wrote in a blog post that "the team's ability to speed up the design and use of Android telemetry can be improved through the cooperation of Google's 5g team."
McLaren also uses Android connected phones, tablets and earplugs - to monitor performance from the repair station - and Dell's prototype design and simulation software.
"We have been rapid prototyping our cars and making them go faster through data-driven engineering changes, on average about every 20 minutes," Edward Green, McLaren's chief digital architect, said in a statement
Among the top five cars on the track, the gap between the fastest and slowest cars may be only 0.15%, which makes the simulation ability provided by Dell indispensable to the team's performance.
Red Bull team
Red Bull's car may have a good medicine for the team and driver Max vestapan to defend the world championship. Oracle cloud software provided by its title sponsor uses machine learning to analyze race day variables - from when to stop to which tire to use.
The software will analyze the data points of the practice circle at the hard rock Stadium on Friday and Saturday, so as to simulate the operation and determine the best route on Sunday. This is particularly important on new tracks, such as the F1 track with 19 temporary corners at hard rock stadium, where there is no historical data.
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez said the surface conditions of the Miami garden were challenging. "There's no grip on this track," he said after falling behind in Friday's practice race.
Computing technology may also help Red Bull solve a challenge most teams have faced so far this season: the bouncing effect of cars when driving at top speed on the long straight, a phenomenon known as "Dolphin jump". This is the impact of the FIA's revision of the 2022 season rules, which gives the team greater floor power control to generate downward pressure.
Red Bull's solution is to increase the hardness and stiffness of metal strips on the floor of the team's rb18 car. This "skate" design also plays a non slip role, that is, once the bottom plate contacts the track, it will reduce bending.
Mercedes AMG Petronas
After a disappointing start to the 2022 season, the long dominant Mercedes team demonstrated the renewal of its front and rear wings for the first time in Miami.
The FIA regulations changed the design of the front and rear wings in 2022 and reintroduced the girder wing after nine years of interruption, which forced the team to redesign their aerodynamic system, especially the front wing, which is the key first contact point to guide the air flow through the body. The Mercedes upgrade is intended to improve efficiency and reduce drag on the w13 driven by George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.
Russell took the lead in the second round of practice on Friday afternoon, which brought hope to the team and fans that Mercedes had solved the problem. At the same time, seven time world champion Hamilton was granted a temporary exemption at the weekend to wear jewelry he could not easily remove, including platinum nose rings, so the team could move forward at full speed.