McLaren Racing CEO says his team pulls 1.5 terabytes of data and runs 50 million simulations every race weekend

Fortune

“We have data analysis around every piece of our race car. We have 300 sensors on a race car. We pull down one and a half terabytes of data a weekend. And for those who don’t know what that means, that’s 10 million documents, that’s about 400 movies….and we will run 50 million simulations over a race weekend. We have to make split-second decisions, so we have to rely on the data.“

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00:00 We have data scientists around every piece of our race cars and we then work with our

00:06 data partners.

00:07 It's one thing to get a lot of data, but then to be able to sum data we have long lead time

00:12 on.

00:13 Other data requires us making split-second decisions.

00:16 So we run 50 million simulations over a race weekend because we will often literally have

00:22 to make split-second decisions and so we have to rely on data.

00:26 The good old-fashioned motorsports you used to have a racer instinct because you didn't

00:31 have the amount of data we have today.

00:34 Back when I was driving and now we rely on it.

00:37 It's data first.

00:39 Ultimately people need to make decisions, understand what data to look at, but then

00:44 you have, we have technology partners that help us cipher through the important data

00:50 because you can end up getting lost in data and but it's a very important part.

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