‘When I first started in F1, we recorded eight channels of data. Now we have 16,000 from every single parameter on the car. And we derive another 50,000 channels from that data,’ said Paddy Lowe, a Cambridge-educated engineer, who is currently the technical leader of Mercedes F1. ‘Each channel provides information on a small aspect of performance. It takes us into the detail, but it also enables us to isolate key metrics that help us to improve.’
