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1. Using Data to Improve Performance
A Focus on Data Fuels Racing Success
The Sauber F1 Team is based in Switzerland and is arguably one of the Sauber uses more than one hundred sensors to transmit streams
big Formula One success stories of 2012. With an annual budget roughly of live data from its race cars. Sauber’s expert team of data and
one-third of those of the biggest F1 racing teams, Sauber was a strong auto engineers travels the globe with the NetApp® and Cisco®
challenger on the F1 circuit last year, finishing 6th place in the 2012 FlexPod® data center solution, using it to collect and analyze
Constructors’ Championship standings and notching four podium terabytes of race data to rethink crucial car design elements,
finishes during the season. The team’s intense focus on leveraging data improve race strategy, and make in-the-moment decisions such as
is what fueled Sauber’s success on the racetrack, helping itpunch above changes to pit stop plans and driving tactics. All of which shave off
its financial weight and compete against bigger budget teams. precious hundredths of a second during each race.
The FlexPod platform
in per year.
travels the globe to The FlexPod solution
races countries has allowed the
Sauber F1 Team
to reduce its
at the track by
That's 166,000 miles on and 15,000 miles on
Telemetry Data
GPS transmitter
driver steering angle
(throttle & brake)
tire temperature
suspension movements Correvit optical
sensors
telemetry
data transmitter
By the Numbers
can be the difference between
individual sensors
on the car produce in the top 10. During any given
race, qualifying times of the first
20-30 MB of data, of which 3-4 MB
are sent to the FlexPod platform in cars were
realtime, including information Data transmitted to Sauber HQ likely to sec
about the tires, engine, temperature, in Hinwil, Switzerland be within a
and fuel usage, which is then used during an hour of free practice. span of just
by the pit team to make immediate
decisions about in-race strategies.
A Little Bit of History About the Sauber F1 Team
First Formula 1 race in 1993. Twenty years in F1. Forty-plus years in motorsports. Fourth oldest team in F1.
346 F1 Grands Prix since 1993. Second in F1 Constructors‘ World Championship in 2007.
Double win in Canada in 2008. Twenty-seven F1 podium finishes.
Source: Sauber F1 Team
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