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Motor racing is a funny old business.
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We make a new car every year,
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and then we spend the rest of the season
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trying to understand what it is we've built
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to make it better, to make it faster.
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And then the next year, we start again.
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Now, the car you see in front of you is quite complicated.
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The chassis is made up of about 11,000 components,
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the engine another 6,000,
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the electronics about eight and a half thousand.
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So there's about 25,000 things there that can go wrong.
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So motor racing is very much about attention to detail.
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The other thing about Formula 1 in particular
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is we're always changing the car.
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We're always trying to make it faster.
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So every two weeks, we will be making
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about 5,000 new components to fit to the car.
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Five to ten percent of the race car
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will be different every two weeks of the year.
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So how do we do that?
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Well, we start our life with the racing car.
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We have a lot of sensors on the car to measure things.
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On the race car in front of you here
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there are about 120 sensors when it goes into a race.
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It's measuring all sorts of things around the car.
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That data is logged. We're logging about
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500 different parameters within the data systems,
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about 13,000 health parameters and events
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to say when things are not working the way they should do,
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and we're sending that data back to the garage
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using telemetry at a rate of two to four megabits per second.
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So during a two hour race, each car will be sending
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750 million numbers.
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That's twice as many numbers as words that each of us
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speaks during our lifetime.
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