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00:0016 race wins a 1 2 in the drivers standings and a first place in the constructors championship last season. Mercedes AMG dominated Formula One knocking Red Bull from its fourth season winning streak. But the battle isn't just fought by the driver and his car. This is what I study all the time. So you basically have almost an unlimited amount of channels you can have from temperatures to tie attempts to tie casing and data is kind of the new way of life in it. I don't I can't even imagine how they lived in the past at Mercedes HQ. Engineers can make the difference from behind their desks. They'll basically be having live telemetry coming from the car. They'll have intercom so coming across the one we'll have all the data in both directions . We'll be sending data to the track and track to the factory . We also have live audio comms. The guys here will be on their headsets and they'll be talking to the driver whether it's the other engineers to keep up with the race the team rely on data or tons of it flying in at lightning pace. It's all about computing nowadays and more computing lets you can give to an enterprise. The more successful it can be the same goes for Formula One as well. The kind of simulations they run helps them understand what to do and actually get on the BOVESPA thousands of miles away from the circuits of Shanghai or Monaco in one of Tartus 44 data centers. Valuable information comes to unassuming server racks so valuable we're not allowed to know whose is whose with the world's largest submarine fibre network connecting 240 countries 24 percent of the planet's Internet routes go through Tata Communications. That means on race day there can be a gigabytes of data going through charts our servers every second with up to 300 sensors on there to race cars. Mercedes can monitor tyre pressure aerodynamics or ever they can figure in near enough real time so you can control defense three different men. For example you feel like a hesitation in the engine at turn 6 during lap three but you've done 15 laps and you can't remember back or way back then you press the button when those things happen and then when they come back in as a hame you press the button and it's Oh yeah that's the thing that's because. So it's like a reminder. Recent rule changes mean a maximum of 60 staff are allowed trackside which means Mercedes basically has another pit lane working to keep their drivers at the front of the race. These cars are pushed to the limit and ultimately reliability is a big player in the sport today. And all the information is coming from the car and all these changes that you make recorded and analysed for next time you blow off the event will then be analyzing well what did we do. How was the car set up. What would it have been like if we'd had done it differently. Try and make sure that actually yeah. We might have won and come second Actually could we have done more time together .

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