Thread by @cto_maverick

National Analytics Summit 2019 in Dublin talking about how AI can be used to save lives in F1 racing

Fast forward a few years and Fernando Alonso walked away from a similar F1 accident because of the application of real-time analytics

F1 teams now have @nasa @NASAJPL style mission control style teams of 8 analysts per #Formula1 car

They have microphone arrays to analyse competitors cars, their velocity etc and use this to derive a winning advantage

F1 drivers man qualification is to be able to follow commands, to the letter, from the analytics team, effectively to be like a robot

Practice laps are now analysed to produce a winning strategy
F1 drivers are now like a piece of SW to win races

F1 reliability is up to 97% over the past 50 years and the difference is data

Data helps target R&D to achieve better outcomes

Digital twins are used in simulation-led approach to simulate very extensively before you build a prototype in a resource and cash constrained environment

Drivers are now younger than ever and gaming is the game-changer

F1 teams share all their data with @sony and the same developers. The drivers now start on simulators from an early age and race thousands of races before ever climbing into a car

@esports drivers can now drive the simulators better and faster than F1 drivers. F1 is boring but give @Twitch gamers a chance to participate and the model changes completely

#MichaelSchumacher was completely data-driven
He was a continuous improvement machine and commanded enormous respect from the engineering teams

Analytics has now moved to the pit to improve performance by instrumenting machines and mechanics and fed this back into better training. Pitstop times are now down to 1.8 secs