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The Life Scientific: Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove

20/11/2018

Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove

Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove talks to Jim Al-Khalili.

Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove talks to Jim Al-Khalili about making the world’s first digital twin of a racing car.

How do you convince Formula One racing drivers that they are speeding round the race track at Le Mans when, in fact, they are sitting in a simulator in the McLaren offices in Woking?  Apparently it’s all about getting the vibrations right. Racing drivers really do drive by the seat of their pants. They’re also highly attuned to the sound f the engine and instinctively associate different sounds with different speeds. When Caroline Hargrove started trying to build a driveable model of a Formula One car many thought it just wouldn’t be possible. Today, all the major manufacturers of Formula One cars use simulators to help them design faster cars and improve driver performance.  Caroline talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how she stumbled upon a job in Formula One and stayed for twenty years. And why she now wants to build digital twins for human beings.   
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