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[00:03] so what's what's going on here
[00:07] what big
[00:09] clue this is the British Grand Prix and
[00:13] it's the venue of the first ever Formula
[00:16] 1 grand prix in 1950 which is way older
[00:20] than new ory this has been going for 75
[00:22] years it's cool right and so here we are
[00:25] to find out what it takes to put on a
[00:28] Formula 1 race in terms of the
[00:31] engineering The Innovation and explore
[00:35] places that people rarely get to see
[00:38] we're going in SCA Ferrari's garage
[00:41] Ferrari Ferrari the car them the red
[00:44] fast
[00:45] car that's them in the pit Lane in the
[00:48] garage we're going to be talking to an
[00:50] engineer we got our friends Bit Defender
[00:52] who are one of the key partners with
[00:54] Ferrari B Defender they they're at like
[00:56] a security cyber security good well good
[00:59] knowledge I knew that they are but
[01:01] they're also going to help us explore
[01:04] the Innovation and Engineering for me
[01:06] Formula 1 is the Pinnacle of innovation
[01:09] and Engineering okay I'm an
[01:10] astrophysicist that would be landing on
[01:12] Mars with an SUV side Rover or humans
[01:15] walking on the moon anyone else see that
[01:17] one
[01:18] coming tell you what you're going to
[01:20] fall in love okay with the red Beauty
[01:23] that's down there I'll put it number two
[01:24] but ain't going to number one and we'll
[01:26] see after you've been down there
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[01:44] the Silverstone track is a former
[01:45] Airfield The Straits are long so you
[01:48] really can floor it and go for it but
[01:51] they've also built in a number of long I
[01:54] call them luxurious luscious bends and
[01:57] you can you get that speed but as we
[01:59] found out they're pulling stupid amounts
[02:01] of G normally when we think of G forces
[02:04] we think of something that's pressing
[02:06] down on you straight the length of your
[02:08] spine so two things will affect the G
[02:11] forces in the turn one of them is how
[02:13] fast you're going into the turn the
[02:15] second is how tight the turn is both of
[02:18] those combined can increase the tighter
[02:21] the turn the faster you're going will
[02:23] increase the G forces sideways and these
[02:26] guys are hitting 3 4 5G so 5G sideways
[02:31] you know your heart is just kind of
[02:32] dangling there in your chest do that
[02:35] your head is like bobbing on your on
[02:38] your neck which is why you see the
[02:39] drivers they got this kind of brace
[02:42] around their neck this contraption I
[02:44] notic in the compartment they're
[02:46] shoulder Tosh shoulder with the size of
[02:49] their seating area and yeah and their
[02:51] head is is restrained right so they
[02:53] can't the head is not just some you
[02:55] imagine being flopping around like that
[02:57] and you're getting 5G slid through the
[02:59] side of you gez yeah your inner organs
[03:01] they're going to feel
[03:02] it it's brutal what can we compare that
[03:05] with so when NASA launches astronauts
[03:08] they throttle such that they don't
[03:10] experience more than 3GS so that's why
[03:13] the not the solid rocket boosters which
[03:16] are
[03:17] unthrottle right once you light those
[03:19] puppies it goes okay until they run out
[03:21] then you separate them and then the main
[03:23] engine that's the one that they can
[03:25] throttle and so that throttles in
[03:26] response to what these g-forces will be
[03:29] and those are they're seated as you see
[03:31] you know how they get into the space so
[03:33] that one's actually against their chest
[03:35] cuz they're seated backwards but keep in
[03:38] mind that's sustained for the entire
[03:40] launch and that can go up to several
[03:42] minutes maybe even up to 8 minutes what
[03:44] actually blew me away not the fact that
[03:46] when you get close up to one of the cars
[03:49] just how Bloody big it is but because
[03:51] they're modular you can just pop parts
[03:54] of the car off you're putting the nose
[03:57] on right now
[04:02] and the most modular part are the
[04:04] tires right you watch their four tires
[04:07] you you turn your head this way you turn
[04:09] your head back and it's four new tires
[04:11] on the car I I timed them it was like
[04:13] 2.1 seconds or something and they
[04:15] they'll get it sub
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[04:21] to back left L Gary let's see what frto
[04:25] Rico had to say on that very subject
[04:28] this is also a track dependent
[04:30] discussion because imagine in in Italy
[04:33] we have Monza Monza is a truck in which
[04:36] you reach very high speed and for that
[04:38] you need a car that has less drug as
[04:41] possible so you have to shape this for
[04:44] the track for the needs of the of the
[04:46] race
[04:48] every we can tune the aerosurfaces we
[04:51] can tune the setup we can tune many
[04:53] things what are the big concerns for
[04:56] setting this car up for Silverstone as
[04:58] opposed now to
[05:00] Monaco where there's lots of tight
[05:01] curves no straights no Lovely Lashes bin
[05:04] yeah Silverstone is a temple in terms of
[05:08] a high speed Corner these kind of cars
[05:10] when you are moving Full Throttle
[05:13] through these Corners if you go up to 4G
[05:16] of lateral acceleration you need to have
[05:18] load on the tires yes to to grip the
[05:20] road otherwise you will fly off
[05:23] otherwise you would slide so you need
[05:24] maximum friction between your tires and
[05:28] the road you need to put as much low as
[05:30] you can on the tires such that you
[05:32] maximize the
[05:37] grip this my first Formula 1 race ever
[05:41] it was raining oh that was that's
[05:43] British I did not know s it was raining
[05:46] at
[05:48] 50° it's cold I'm wet it's July so I was
[05:53] surprised I was just ignorant of this
[05:56] that you could race in the rain you see
[05:58] what they did with
[06:00] not increasing the mass of the car but
[06:02] increasing the weight on the car with
[06:04] the down Force the force because when
[06:06] it's wet it's slippy as we've discussed
[06:08] already and you need higher downward
[06:10] force and how they go about achieving
[06:13] this so the aerodynamics going over the
[06:15] car there's the car shape itself which
[06:17] surely they've thought about but they
[06:19] got those add-ons right there there's
[06:21] there's an air foil basically creates
[06:23] extra air pressure down on the rear
[06:26] wheels which is where your traction is
[06:28] coming from not the front no the
[06:30] structure of the air foil as an add-on
[06:33] to the chassis enables the air to create
[06:36] a higher downward Force which increases
[06:38] the friction between the tires and the
[06:39] road which then gives you more traction
[06:41] because your traction is 100% determined
[06:44] by that friction now have you ever seen
[06:46] if you sit over the wing in an airplane
[06:49] flight yeah and you watch it when it
[06:52] takes off and when it lands the wing
[06:55] gets bigger yeah there's a piece of the
[06:58] wing that out extends out and curves
[07:02] down M so the more Wing surface they
[07:04] have the more lift and since it curves
[07:07] down there's pressure air pressure on it
[07:10] to lift it up yeah now take that whole
[07:12] thing and flip it and now what they had
[07:14] on the on the formula one was there's a
[07:17] curv surface that comes up that's that
[07:20] extra lift the plane is getting by
[07:23] pointing down now you want extra
[07:25] pressure coming down from the speed
[07:27] going forward and that's what's on the
[07:29] back the Formula 1 you were down on the
[07:32] ground cuz you couldn't believe just how
[07:34] close right very very low Center of mass
[07:39] very stable on turns on everything like
[07:42] three finger then the air speed mhm is
[07:46] going to be very high across the ground
[07:49] the car is dragging air with it yeah
[07:51] okay the Unseen okay it's it's dragging
[07:54] air with it so that will create a
[07:56] partial pressure upwards cuz moving air
[07:58] has lower pressure and stationary air
[08:01] and what did I hear at one of the races
[08:03] a car drove so fast down the street it
[08:05] sucked up one of the drain covers and
[08:07] hit the bottom of the chassis in Vegas
[08:09] they hadn't sealed it properly to make
[08:11] sure it stayed where it was put okay
[08:13] because underneath the drain is regular
[08:15] air pressure yep and fast moving air is
[08:18] lower air pressure that's very Bui and
[08:21] so if you have a difference in pressure
[08:23] watch out we were looking at Carlos s's
[08:26] car the Ferrari and it was he who had
[08:30] one of these drain covers pop as he
[08:33] drove over it so anything hitting
[08:35] anything moving 180 M hour is bad yeah
[08:39] totally not good and I'm sure the garage
[08:41] were very unhappy right but the garage
[08:43] was fun all the Ferrari mechanics start
[08:45] to do exercises oh no that was fun yeah
[08:48] that was a little weird they did a warm
[08:49] up I could I was expecting and they all
[08:52] like they all they did calisthenics they
[08:55] if they started doing they did jumping
[08:57] jacks they had like a rubber hose that
[08:59] they were stretching they pressing on
[09:01] their neck and I thought I'd join in
[09:03] with
[09:04] them and I got a you know some of the
[09:06] stretching and there you were there and
[09:08] they did like lunges I know and at first
[09:12] I was wondering like what are they doing
[09:13] they just like killing time they have to
[09:15] be nimble and ready when the car comes
[09:17] in for the pit stop so that the pit stop
[09:20] doesn't last more than 2 and 1/2 seconds
[09:23] all four wheels are on secured and the
[09:26] car's out in under 3 seconds 2 and 1/
[09:28] half seconds it's impressive right to
[09:31] say course they lose more time than that
[09:33] because they have to slow down to go
[09:35] into the lane there's like 50 mph speed
[09:38] L yeah you can't can you imagine coming
[09:39] in at 100 miles hour You' be like it'd
[09:41] be like 10 Pin bowling Skittle people
[09:46] everywhere and then I think back to the
[09:49] sort of fan Zone area we ended up in
[09:52] well the fan zone right cuz they also
[09:54] had the simulated uh Driving
[09:58] Experience supposed to go on the grass
[10:00] is that
[10:02] allow as I remember Formula 1 pledged to
[10:05] go carbon neutral yes by 20130 I'm told
[10:08] they're on track to beat that dat and
[10:10] they're going synthetic no partly not
[10:13] synthetic so here's what they're doing
[10:14] they're taking after we after my long
[10:17] conversation with the person in the
[10:19] booth yeah what she said was I'm going
[10:21] to take water MH and with solar energy
[10:23] they're going to dissociate the molecule
[10:25] which is the chemist word for separating
[10:29] hen from separating hydrogen from oygen
[10:31] thank you thank you so knew you had it
[10:33] in your and so now you have the hydrogen
[10:35] now they recapture carbon dioxide from
[10:38] the environment and by their magic ways
[10:41] will combine the hydrogen the carbon
[10:42] dioxide and turn it into basically
[10:45] gasoline so in that sense it's not
[10:47] synthetic fuel it's synthetically
[10:50] manufactured real Fuel and that means
[10:53] they don't have to change their
[10:55] engines see they'll have to there are
[10:58] some small people around I know how's
[11:01] that for Innovation another thing that
[11:02] intrigued me just as a scientist is to
[11:04] hear red Rico just talk about the
[11:08] constraints put on him the engineer by
[11:11] the rules and regulations of the sport
[11:14] we need to think outside the box imagine
[11:16] for example me as an aerodynamicist i
[11:18] play every day Within These legality
[11:21] boxes regulations change every few years
[11:25] such that is like drawing a zero line
[11:28] and you restart
[11:30] and and what the public doesn't
[11:31] typically appreciate yeah is that
[11:35] Engineers love constraints well see if
[11:39] you say here do it with with anything
[11:41] you need they don't they're lost you say
[11:43] do it for this amount of weight with
[11:45] that price at this thing if you give us
[11:47] constraints we always Target ourself to
[11:51] lie exactly on the limits got on a limit
[11:53] if you're in complete control of your
[11:55] car you're not in the race at all maybe
[11:58] that's a bit of an exaggeration of
[12:00] course but but the idea is something to
[12:04] reckon because you want to take the car
[12:06] to its limits taking it beyond what is
[12:10] perceived to be its limit if track and
[12:11] field athletes didn't have that
[12:13] mentality we'd never get a record broken
[12:15] oh that's right you would never run
[12:17] faster than you've ever run before the
[12:20] fascinating thing about the Silverstone
[12:22] track you are at Full Throttle 60% of
[12:26] the race as we found out probably the
[12:29] this thing at the track is something you
[12:30] can't actually see which would be all
[12:32] the data
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[12:39] transfer Communications is one thing but
[12:42] then Ferrari has to look at many other
[12:44] things intellectual property theft they
[12:47] their design has to be safe and secure
[12:49] so what they store their data is a very
[12:52] uh very important Place uh if you know
[12:54] the concept of supply chain attacks or
[12:56] supply chain security that's also very
[12:58] important because if you have a nice car
[13:00] that has like it's not like a plane with
[13:02] a million or a billion pieces but I
[13:05] think there's a couple of hundred
[13:06] thousands in there and if one of them is
[13:08] faulty or hacked and it's digital that
[13:10] can also cor can create issues if
[13:12] someone gets into the supply chain and
[13:14] gives you a faulty bolt that will
[13:17] crumble on the third turn it can
[13:19] actually be lethal I hadn't thought
[13:20] about that okay cuz so so therefore not
[13:23] all the world is bits and
[13:25] bites with the sponsorship obviously
[13:28] with Ferrari and we can see it it's
[13:30] visible but what cyber security services
[13:34] do you provide is it just a Ferrari or
[13:36] is it to F1 as whole outfit uh when it
[13:39] comes to Ferrari they use our trade
[13:41] intelligence feeds uh so basically they
[13:44] consume all the data that we have
[13:47] related to cyber crimes and to cyber
[13:49] attacks we send them uh various um
[13:52] indicators of compromise basically if
[13:54] you see that indicator of compromise
[13:57] somewhere within your ization it means
[14:00] that you have been already compromised
[14:02] so we send this to them they can secure
[14:05] not only themselves but also the uh
[14:08] their partners and their other people
[14:09] they're working with this is this is
[14:11] what we do with Ferrari right now while
[14:13] we were in the Ferrari garage at the
[14:15] Formula 1 race in in Silverstone uh I
[14:18] noticed uh Bit Defender your logo was on
[14:22] the what they call the Halo Halo the
[14:24] Halo which is kind of their modern
[14:26] version of a roll bar I guess so it's
[14:28] definitely protecting their head yeah in
[14:32] a in a very blunt way but what attracted
[14:35] you to Ferrari in the first place we
[14:38] believe uh as we actually started the
[14:40] discussion that the engineering to build
[14:43] a race car and to drive a race car and
[14:46] the amount of speeds that they're
[14:47] driving it's all about you know decision
[14:50] making the Ingenuity The Innovation and
[14:53] so on and these are similar values to
[14:55] what we have in Vint vender we believe a
[14:57] lot of in innovation but also things
[14:59] that I do in my team with the Cyber
[15:01] investigations where we have to think
[15:03] fast in order to see what if there's a
[15:05] crime being committed on so on so it was
[15:08] rather a decision of similar values and
[15:11] that's why we decided on the Halo
[15:12] because that's referring to actual
[15:14] protection and exactly what we do as
[15:16] well you see what Alex is saying there
[15:19] that there is this resonance
[15:21] between what he does in his everyday
[15:24] life in cyber security and how Ferrari
[15:27] go about being a a leader within Formula
[15:31] 1 racing Alex thank you so much you've
[15:33] been superb with us now Gary I got a
[15:35] level with you I'm born and raised in
[15:37] New York City we don't have
[15:38] relationships with cars it's a very late
[15:42] in life thing yeah I to learn that till
[15:45] I was 25 you know I have some fluency
[15:47] now cuz I'm intrigued that it is a thing
[15:50] yeah but it was never sort of native to
[15:52] my to my my core being but to see all
[15:56] the engineering which boosts my interest
[15:58] in it yeah it's not just four wheels
[16:00] it's like the the aerospace engineering
[16:02] mechanical engineering the material
[16:04] science that goes into it uh it's a
[16:07] science project
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