Alpine F1 is completing preparations for testing in Bahrain, and soon containers with new machines and equipment will be delivered first to the airport of this island, and then to the circuit in Sakhir.
Journalists from the Spanish newspaper AS visited the team’s base in Enstone, after which they shared some statistics related to the A523.
Alpine F1 employs 895 specialists of different professions (of which 13.6% are women), and all these people are involved in one way or another in the development, production, assembly and tuning of the machine, but also in solving problems. logistical and other tasks.
The car consists of 13,000 different components that took 400,000 hours of work to produce, starting 18 months before the A523 first hit the track. The project required 16,000 digital drawings to be made.
And all this applies only to the British Enstone. The above statistics do not take into account the work of French sitters, who are based in Viry-Châtillon.
Although the new car has already been created, engineers and designers have begun a program to modernize the A523. In general, the plan for the upcoming season has already been drawn up, the first technical innovations will be presented after about the first three races, taking into account the information obtained from the tests, but some future components are already being tested using of CFD technologies, as well as in a wind tunnel, where models are blown at 60% of their natural size.
Approximately 90% of chassis components are manufactured directly at the base in Enstone, with the remainder manufactured by third parties. Many elements are created manually if special accuracy is required when performing work. Radiators and exhaust systems in particular are created in this way.
During each test session or race weekend, engineers from 24 different specialties monitor the progress of work on the track, including in a specially equipped center at the Enstone base. It can be called a kind of “remote garage”.
The machine is equipped with more than 200 sensors that record data at a rate of 150,000 operations per second. And after 0.25 seconds, this information enters Enstone, after which it is processed, analyzed and then used in making certain decisions, including those related to tactics, the operation of the machine or its further modernization.
Source: F1 News

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