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Reimagining Formula 1 Manufacturing to Build a Respiratory Device
Here's how the Mercedes Formula 1 engineering team used tech expertise to reverse engineer CPAP breathing aid devices in response to COVID-19.
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Information from real-time data streams drives nearly every aspect of Formula 1 racing and informs the core skills of the F1 industry -- from rapid design and prototype manufacture to testing and skilled assembly.
F1 loves a deadline -- you’re either ready by race time or you lose the race. As the coronavirus took hold in early March of 2020, it was showtime -- a call to arms for the F1 community to harness its know-how and band together with the British government to support the manufacture of respiratory devices in an effort called Project Pitlane.