Steve Riley, head of IT operations and service management at Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team, gave ZDNET a tour of his racing team's state-of-the-art technology campus in Brackley, UK, and reflected on the impact digital and data have on the sport. "Technology is more crucial in Formula One than ever," he said. "Any sort of manufacturing function in an F1 team many years ago wouldn't necessarily be quite as reliant on IT services as they are today."
"Like every other function, IT plays a part in how the team comes together to deliver wins. Some of our inputs might be more obvious than our contribution in other areas, but every component in the cars is manufactured on a platform that we've helped deliver."
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