For those who interested in racing machines

Great online article about F1 racing and the behind the scenes look at how the 'Teams' design, build and race F1 cars.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/04/formula-1-technology

For you computer nerds (like me), in depth discussion about their IT systems and on board telemetry:

"Renault Sport Formula One Team recently deployed a new on-premises compute cluster with 18,000 cores—so, probably about 2,000 Intel Xeon CPUs. While the total number of teraflops is strictly limited, other aspects of the system's architecture can be optimised. For example, the team's cluster has highly parallel storage. "Each compute node has a dedicated connection to storage so that we don't waste flops on reading and writing data," says Mark Everest, one of the team's infrastructure managers."

 

Wow, now that so NASA like, crazy what ever happen to good ole get it out there racing?

 

Not sure that has ever existed......

 

Much like fly by wire throttles, traction control and for some, linked brakes.

For a graphic overview, take a look at the yearly average speeds of say one major race. An example might be "Indy" or another might be the all world Land Speed Records set at Bonneville.

Some of the guys here who are real ex racers might have some input on this too with oot going to far into the "Muhammed Ali vs Joe Louis" thing.

 

I agree, all that NASA stuff is propaganda. The Moon landing was filmed at a secret base somewhere in Arizona.

Then again, Barney Oldfield in Ford's 999 was a real racer.

 

Sometimes development is too good. If memory serves me correctly (big if there) wasn't it the Porsche 917 that got banned at Daytona because it was too fast? Something like near 250 in the early 70's?

 

Lots and lots of $$$$$$$. New car from scratch every year!