With the new tyre rules, having that amount of data will be tremendously beneficial for Mercedes, Lowe admits: “I think it will come into its own even further this year because we have five compounds to choose from through the year but at any given race there will be three rather than two compounds. We can work with it, get the answers, make a decision and turn the car around within the session.” “So that process didn’t work with the tyre data before, but it does now. You need to cycle around in literally seconds. “When you are in a tight practice session you’ve got an hour to send the car out, do a run, make an analysis, make a decision, make changes to the car and go out again. “It’s all about decision making,” he said. Lowe confirms the new system has been saving Mercedes huge amounts of time. “And it also might have taken us twenty minutes to half an hour because it was so bulky, effectively video-scaled data.” Swift decision making So what we developed with Qualcomm was a WiFi solution that allowed us to actually gather that data back into our system before the car had actually stopped, whereas previously we had to download it afterwards. “We didn’t have the infrastructure to bring that off the car quickly.

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