For F1 drivers to have any likelihood of scoring factors, podiums or championships, first they need to make it to the chequered flag, making reliability a vital issue that determines success within the sport.
Within the newest episode of F1 Explains, hosts Katie Osborne and Christian Hewgill are joined by Sauber Reliability Engineer Laura Villadelprat to dissect precisely how groups up and down the grid work to keep away from the dreaded DNFs – standing for ‘Did Not End’.
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Dividing her time between the storage and the manufacturing facility, Laura explains how groups determine when previous automotive components should be swapped out for brand new ones, in addition to how they monitor reliability in actual time whereas the automobiles are out on observe.
She additionally goes into element concerning the exact steps they take to research precisely what precipitated a race retirement in order that the issue might be averted at future Grand Prix weekends.
