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