Former Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley explains how F1 turns to AWS for the development of 2021 racing season. Rob Smedley on how F1 will improve in 2021.

Former Scuderia Ferrari engineer Rob Smedley, who currently is a technical consultant with the Formula 1 organisation, explains how Formula One turns to AWS for the development of the 2021 racing season

The organisation partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to carry out simulations that it says has resulted in the car design for the 2021 racing season.

The CFD project used over 1,150 compute cores to run detailed simulations comprised of over 550 million data points that model the impact of one car’s aerodynamic wake on another.