First of six new real-time racing statistics
for 2021 season to debut April 16-18 at the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN
PREMIO DEL MADE IN ITALY E DELL’EMILIA ROMAGNA 2021 in Imola,
Italy
Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company
(NASDAQ: AMZN), and FORMULA 1 (F1) (NASDAQ: FWONA, FWONK) are
introducing six new F1 Insights powered by AWS that will roll out
through the 2021 racing season. The new additions mean a total of
18 AWS-powered stats will be available to fans by the end of the
season. F1 Insights powered by AWS are real-time racing statistics,
displayed as on-screen graphics, that transform the fan experience
before, during, and after each race by providing the data and
analysis fans need to interpret driver and team race strategy and
performance. The first new stat, Braking Performance, will debut at
the GRAND PRIX in Italy, April 16-18. The new set of statistics for
2021 will use a range of AWS technologies, including machine
learning, to help fans better understand and highlight potential
race outcomes and compare their favorite drivers and cars. For more
information about AWS and its involvement with F1, including the 12
previously released F1 Insights, please visit:
https://aws.amazon.com/f1/.
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F1 racing is a data-driven sport where much of the thrill for
fans comes from poring over statistics before and after a race to
gain a deeper understanding of driver and team decisions and cars’
performance on the track. F1 Insights powered by AWS add a new
real-time dimension to statistics and place context around race
data to help fans better appreciate key moments on the track. More
than 300 sensors on each race car generate over 1.1 million data
points per second that F1 transmits from the cars to the pit and
onto AWS for processing. F1 relies on the breadth and depth of AWS
services to stream and analyze that flood of data as it’s
generated, and then present it in a meaningful way for TV and
online viewers around the world through the F1 Insights.
The first F1 Insight to be introduced this season, Braking
Performance, shows how a driver’s braking style during a cornering
maneuver can deliver an advantage coming out of the corner. When
executed well, braking optimizes a car’s speed through the phases
of cornering and enables the driver to gain a better position on
the track. This stat displays and compares drivers’ braking styles
and performance by measuring how closely they approach the apex of
a corner before braking. In addition, it will show the key
performance metrics that lead to how the car and driver perform
together when cornering, such as top speed on approach, speed
decrease through braking, the braking power (KWH) utilized, and the
immense G-forces drivers undergo while cornering. Braking
Performance builds on the existing Corner Analysis statistic, which
shows how cars physically perform while cornering.
Braking Performance and the other five new F1 Insights powered
by AWS (detailed below) will debut as on-screen graphics from April
through December this season. Each new stat offers fans more
visibility into the split-second action on the track and the
decision-making behind the pit wall.
- Car Exploitation shows fans when F1 drivers are pushing
their cars to performance limits in areas like tire traction,
braking, acceleration, and maneuvering during key points in a race.
The stat reveals the data in real-time by displaying a car’s
current performance during a race compared to a theoretical
performance limit, and then calculates the time gained or lost per
lap as a result. The stat debuts June 11-13 at the FORMULA 1
HEINEKEN GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2021.
- Energy Usage provides insights into how the high-tech
engines powering F1 cars utilize energy during a race, including
when teams unleash energy to overtake another car. The stat
demonstrates energy flows through each component of the advanced F1
engine, known as the Power Unit, and shows how much battery energy
is left at any given moment in a race. The F1 engine propels a
vehicle by using a combination of internal combustion and hybrid
systems that recover energy from braking and from the turbo
charger. However, there are limits to the Power Unit’s energy
storage capacity and the amount of energy that can move through it
during each race lap. Race teams track this data to help maximize
their car’s performance at key moments in a race, determining when
to deploy energy in steady streams to achieve the best lap times or
unleash it in focused moments to gain or maintain position when
battling another driver. Energy Usage allows fans to see those
decisions in real time. The stat debuts July 16-18 at the FORMULA 1
PIRELLI BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2021.
- Start Analysis displays which driver was the quickest on
the pedal and picked the perfect line, as well as which drivers
struggled off the starting grid and why. Achieving the perfect
start is a core driver skill, and Start Analysis will help fans
understand how a driver’s decisions earn or sacrifice an early
advantage in the race. The stat debuts September 10-12 at the
FORMULA 1 HEINEKEN GRAN PREMIO D’ITALIA 2021.
- Pitlane Performance analyzes pit stop performance,
adding excitement to the portion of the race that takes place
behind the pit wall. Pit stops are an essential and precisely
coordinated, but time-draining element of an F1 race. Pitlane
Performance offers insights beyond a car’s stationary stop time,
like unpacking how the driver and team perform during each step of
a pit stop in the pitlane and highlighting total pitlane time lost
or gained due to how efficiently the team works. The stat debuts
October 8-10 at the FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2021.
- Undercut Threat helps fans anticipate which cars are at
risk of being overtaken as the result of an “undercut.” The
undercut is an F1 race strategy where a chasing driver enters the
pit for fresh tires with the expectation that improved lap time
resulting from the new tires will allow the driver to overtake the
car in front once that car has pitted. F1 introduced a similar
stat, Pit Strategy Battle, in June 2020 to highlight an undercut
battle as it happens and help fans assess in real time how
successful each driver’s strategy will be. Undercut Threat adds a
new layer of predictive insight by analyzing race performance
before either car has pitted, adding to fan excitement and the
sense of jeopardy around potential action to come. It visualizes
data on gaps between cars, average pit loss time, and tire
performance to help identify which cars are at risk. The stat
debuts November 19-21 at the FORMULA 1 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX
2021.
To create the new insights, F1 uses historical race data stored
in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and combines it with
live data streamed from F1 race cars and trackside sensors to AWS
through Amazon Kinesis, a service for real-time data collection,
processing, and analysis. F1 engineers and scientists will use this
data to leverage machine learning models with Amazon SageMaker,
AWS’s service that helps developers and data scientists build,
train, and deploy machine learning models quickly in the cloud and
at the edge. F1 is able to analyze race performance metrics in
real-time by deploying those machine learning models on AWS Lambda,
which is a serverless compute service that can run code without the
need to provision or manage servers. All of the insights will be
integrated into the races’ international broadcast feeds around the
globe, including F1’s digital platform, F1TV, helping fans to
understand the split-second decisions and race strategies made by
drivers or teams that can dramatically affect a race outcome.
“F1 Insights Powered by AWS give fans an insider’s view of how
car, driver, and team function together so that they can better
appreciate the action on the track,” said Rob Smedley, chief
engineer of FORMULA 1. “With this new set of racing statistics for
2021, we are going deeper than ever before. New Insights like
Braking Performance and Undercut Threat peel back additional layers
of race strategies and performance and use advanced visualizations
to make the sport of racing even more understandable and exciting.
Race car technology improves all the time, and thanks to AWS, our
fans can appreciate how that technology impacts race outcomes.”
“Data has become a critical piece of the story for modern
sports, and for F1—where literally each second on the track
produces more than a million data points—they require a partner
that can translate that raw data into meaning in real time. AWS
enables F1 to analyze its troves of data at scale, make better and
more informed decisions, and bring fans closer to every phase of
action on the track, from the starting grid, to cornering, to
pitting,” said Darren Mowry, director of business development at
AWS EMEA SARL. “The world’s premier sports organizations are using
AWS to build data-driven solutions and reinvent the way sports are
watched, played, and managed. Our work with F1 demonstrates how
advanced stats can elevate the fan experience by revealing the
tactics and strategies behind even the most seemingly
straightforward elements of a race.”
For news on how AWS is helping F1 develop the next-generation
race car, visit: https://aws.amazon.com/f1/news/.
About Amazon Web Services
For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has been
continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud
workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for
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