Peter van Egmond
The 2015 US Grand Prix was one of the best races of the year. Lewis Hamilton emerged victorious, securing his third world title.
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AUSTIN, Texas—As you might imagine, speed is extremely important in Formula 1. It's not just the racing cars that have to be fast, though. Data from thousands of sensors on each of the cars has to be piped from the track to each team's headquarters (usually in the UK) and then back to the track again, as near to real-time as possible. The same goes for gigabytes of HD video since this is predominantly a televised sport. In order to get a better idea of how that all happens, we wanted to be on the scenes. So even though a visit to some far-off (and dry) data centers may have done the trick, we were on hand at this year's soggy United States Grand Prix to witness data at F1 speed.
The Circuit of the Americas, also known as COTA, is a state of the art race track just a few miles east of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. But for the Grand Prix, we returned to a somewhat different looking COTA than the one we left a month earlier after the Lone Star Le Mans. (In fact, the F1 circus was in town to displace the actual circus—Cirque de Soleil—which had taken up residence in the main parking lot.)
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