Slide Show: Tech Takes the Driver Seat at Firestone Grand Prix 2023
While the physical parts of the race comprise the cars and the drivers, just about everything else involved around and behind the race is digital.
March 6, 2023
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Sensors are mounted inside the tires of each race car. Each team receives 11 sets of Firestone racing tires, which can cost $1,000 each, for the weekend of racing.
Tire sensors are mounted inside the rims and continually send pressure readings to the respective teams.
At the race, each car has a pit stop, where cars stop to be fueled and get tires rapidly changed, all within seconds, by helmet-wearing pit crew members.
IoT tech-central, a screened tent at each pit stop, where about eight people stand with connected headsets in front of multiple computer screens where they monitor every aspect of their vehicle as they speed around the course.
Another view of a team monitoring the vehicle and its driver in real time during the race.
A look at the technology inside the pit stop monitoring station.
A view from outside the tent where inside teams monitor every aspect of their vehicle as it speeds around the course.
A view from outside the tent where inside teams monitor every aspect of their vehicle as it speeds around the course.
While cars raced around the track at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg this past weekend, teams of technicians and engineers were glued to computer screens tracking every detail of their respective cars and drivers in real time.
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