In this presentation, we look at how and why Formula 1 – one of the world's largest sport organisations – successfully went remote in just seven weeks, forced by Covid-19 travel restrictions. Thanks to their shift to remote TV production, Formula 1 were able to cut travelling staff by 37% and travelling freight by 34%, accelerate their carbon footprint reduction plans, and create higher quality TV content with a reduced budget. The benefits are so great that they will not go back to their pre-pandemic set-up. Keep reading to find out how you can do the same for your business, with simple, actionable tips. Read the original article here: https://www.pangea.ai/future-of-work/formula-1-goes-remote/ Go remote with Pangea: https://www.pangea.ai/

1. How Formula 1 Successfully Went
How Formula 1 Successfully Went
Remote - and How Your Organisation
Remote - and How Your Organisation
Can Too
Can Too
by Prags Mugunthan
Co-founder and CEO @ Pangea.ai Date: 5th of October, 2021
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2. What happens when one of the world’s largest sports
production companies throws out the rule book and changes
their thinking, forced by Covid-19 travel restrictions?
In this presentation, we will explore...
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3. Let's loop you in about how....
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In just seven weeks, Formula 1 accelerated
their transition to remote operations –
completely overhauling methods of
television production that had worked
successfully since the 1960s.
Until the pandemic, F1 production was
reliant on traditional satellite transmission
technology.

4. 🔻37% Reduction in travelling staff
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By going remote, Formula One experienced significant benefits:
🔻34% Reduction in travelling freight
🌳Accelerated carbon footprint reduction plans
📺Creation of higher quality TV content with a reduced budget

5. Why did F1 go remote?
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Because of the pandemic's tight travel
restrictions.
In March 2020, Formula One Management
(FOM) was forced to re-think the entire
production model from the ground up, in the
middle of the racing season.

6. Traditionally televising just one Formula 1 racing event required:
📍A travelling crew of 200-300 on-site staff
🎙3000-5000 supporting staff - from camera crew to reporters
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Now, multiply that by 23 races per year... 🤯
How did F1 operate before going remote?

8. The high demands of traditional F1
production led to an organisational
crisis since 2019, seen in:
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Rising costs associated with trackside
television production
Logistics challenges of travel to an
increasing number of racing circuits per
year

9. On top of that, Formula 1
production highly contributed to
negative environmental impact:
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In 2019, international travel and logistics
made up more than 70%+ of Formula
One's total carbon footprint.

10. To tackle the rising number of problems back in 2019, F1 had mapped out the gradual
adoption of remote TV production by 2023.
The original plan
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But the pandemic changed everything...

11. Racing against time
In March 2020, during the first event of the season, sudden travel restrictions brought
production challenges to the forefront of thinking.
Suddenly, F1 needed a new plan to tackle the pandemic challenge.
Fast.
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There was no longer time to wait until 2023 for going remote.

12. When a return to racing was ready
to be announced in late summer,
Formula One Management (FOM)
needed to find a way to:
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Meet a condensed schedule with less
staff and tight travel restrictions
Turn the televising process into one that
could be done remotely
The management expected to find a solution
and roll out a long-term plan to transition to
remote only within the next 24 months...

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How would F1' management implement remote production in:
6 continents
23 countries
...using traditional satellite transmission technology?
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The big question...

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Like never before, a massive shift in
thinking and strategy was required...

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More than 100 trackside cameras—each delivering a 4k feed, broadcasting live to
Formula 1 Headquarters in Biggin Hill, England
A home base capable of receiving, producing, and broadcasting a television feed
simultaneously
Constant and reliable communications with on-site personnel
The Biggest Challenges to Overcome
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Before Covid-19, TV coverage of each Formula 1 racing event required:

16. So, how did F1 overcome the challenges?
Let's explore ▶
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17. In search of alternatives to satellite technology, F1 reached out to its tech partners looking for remote
TV production solutions to deliver 160Tb of data from the trackback to HQ.
Tata Communications – a one tier-one internet service provider – stepped in to meet the high technical
demands.
New Technologies
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How did the company solve this pressing problem?

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With fibre data technology

19. 🛰It is cheaper, faster, and with higher bandwidth than satellite transmission
💨Offers a high-speed, low-latency, and reliable connection
📍It can deliver 100+ live 4k feeds to F1 HQ in Biggin Hill
Why fibre data?
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New Technologies
The switch to fibre data is a significant paradigm shift in sports TV broadcasting since the 1960s.

20. Key Challenge 1: Data
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On race day, broadcasting from
the trackside back to F1 HQ
requires 160TB of data
Without effective compression, the
demand for F1’s camera feeds
exceeds 12GB/s

21. Tata Communications provided the
intercontinental cabling and infrastructure to
support communication between
the F1 HQ in Biggin Hill and each of the 23
proposed tracks.
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Solution

22. Key Challenge 2: Operations
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Facilitate changes in operations across all
platforms simultaneously

23. F1 set up partnerships with cloud-based
service providers AWS and ZOOM, who also
future-proofed F1’s streaming services and
communication networks.
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Solution

24. Key Challenge 2: Communication
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Effective and reliable communication with
on-site personnel and camera operators.

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F1 built a new operations centre for
broadcasting at Biggin Hill where production
teams can now:
Receive each of the circuit’s 100+ camera
and audio feeds
Cut together a cohesive story of on-track
action
Create a live television broadcast in
real-time
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Solution

26. With these partnerships in place, F1
management was able to speed up the
process of implementing a new plan –
enacting changes in just seven weeks,
instead of 24 months.
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Foot on the Gas Pedal

27. Finally, the time had to come to see the remote plan in action.
How would the new process and drastic changes affect F1 production?
Steering Into the Unknown
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In July, the 2020 Formula 1 season opened again – steering into unknown
territory on and off the track.

28. Immediate effects of F1's shift to
remote production:
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📉37% Reduction in travelling staff
📉34% Reduction in travelling freight
📉Carbon footprint reduction
📉Budget reduction
📈Higher efficiency
📈 Improvement in equipment and resources
available

29. Benefit 1 - Staff travel reduction
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🔻From 250 to 60 on-site staff
🔻From 3,000 to1,200 supporting staff
37% less staff travel = significant reduction in
carbon footprint and travel freight

30. Benefit 2 - Budget reduction
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The reduction of international travel and
operational changes had a positive financial
impact on the organisation.

31. Benefit 3 - Higher quality content
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Uplift in productivity: F1’s production staff is
now working in a more flexible way than a
travelling schedule would allow, and in a
familiar and controlled environment
The use of technologies implemented to
enable remote production
These factors enable the creation of higher
quality TV content.

32. Operational Environmental
Financial
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The advantages of going remote

33. 🔻 Reduced costs
🏎 Maximised efficiency
✨ A better final product
The Effects are Irreversible
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After accelerating its remote adoption, F1 has:
The benefits are too powerful to give up.
There is no going back to pre-pandemic ways of working.

34. The Future of Formula 1
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Building on the lessons learnt and the
technologies implemented to enable
remote production, the potential exists to
expand the capabilities of the business
beyond what was previously thought
possible.

35. In racing, there are always things you can learn, every single
day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that
applies to everything in life.
Lewis Hamilton
F1 Driver for Mercedes - 7x World Champion 🏆
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36. As a result of F1’s success, Racing,
MotoGP and NASCAR, Football, Rugby,
horse racing also adopted remote
production.
Thanks to F1, the broadcasting industry is
more open to change than ever before.
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Ripple Effect in the Industry

37. 🌐 Further advancements in 5G communication
📌 Better centralised facilities
☁ Incorporating more cloud platforms to increase audience reach
🎥 Allowing a single team to produce multiple events within the same day
We are all more connected than ever before...
The shift to Remote
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What’s next?

38. F1’s move into remote production is a spectacular milestone. The company cemented
remote-first as the way forward in a post-pandemic world – for brands of the past, and
brands of today.
Key Learnings
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How can we apply F1's success story to our own
organisation?

39. The tech was already there – but it’s a shift in thinking that enabled F1 to adopt remote
and accelerate their plan from 24 months to 7 weeks.
It’s ok to question tradition.
It Starts with Your Thinking
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Challenge = Opportunity

40. Enforced by extreme circumstances, F1 implemented drastic changes with long-term
effects – disrupting the traditional modus operandi and improving the organisation
across the board, as a result.
Change Can Bring Surprising Advantages
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Ask: how can we make it better?

41. Formula 1 is a team sport, both in front and behind the scenes. F1's partnerships with
tech companies enabled the business to reach its goals.
Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork
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Build a trusted network of partners to
support your growth. Work together.

42. By overhauling old thinking with new technologies, Formula 1 has paved the way for a
new, world-class experience in racing.
Use Tech to Accelerate Your Company’s Growth
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The future is leaner, more efficient, more agile.
Where can you automate or use tech to support you?

43. Even in the most challenging of circumstances, shifts in
attitudes, thinking, and expectations are entirely possible – and
the results may accelerate your growth in surprising ways.
Prags Mugunthan
Co-founder and CEO @ Pangea.ai
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44. What Does F1's Success Mean for Your Business?
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If the iconic and global Formula 1 company – with an extremely complex production
schedule and process – can go remote, don’t you think you can run parts of your business
remotely too?

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Keep it simple. Don’t overcomplicate the management of remote teams. Use the
systems you have. No need to reinvent the wheel.
Trust your remote teams as you would in-house staff. There’s no difference
between the two. When hiring, don’t focus solely on remote experience.
Provide the time and space needed to solve problems. Define schedules and
goals, but don’t micromanage your remote teams.
Keep in touch. Use regularly scheduled catch-up sessions to keep tabs on
progress and find out about upcoming roadblocks via Zoom, Hangouts, and
Slack.
Use time zone changes as a time-saving asset to maximise efficiency. Benefit from
ongoing troubleshooting and a faster daily turnaround of critical tasks.
Five Tips for Successfully Going Remote with Your Organisation
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📍Read the full article by Pangea.ai on Medium

46. Remote is Here to Stay
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🌏In 2021, 16% of companies in the
world are 100% remote
📊The industries with higher remote
workers are healthcare (15%), technology
(10%), and financial services (9%)
Source: Findstack

47. We can support your journey to go remote
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Through half a decade of due diligence, we
have built a supercontinent of elite companies
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Hire for your next digital project or a specific
role through pre-vetted companies within 72h.
Accelerate the speed at which you do business
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48. Think about it this way: what Tata Communication did for F1,
Pangea.ai can do for your hiring needs in software
development - all within 72 hours, for free.
VP of Engineering at Fintech Unicorn
London, United Kingdom
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49. Thank you
Thank you
prags@pangea.ai
prags@pangea.ai + 49 174 181 7323
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