Formula One is three competitions in one: a 200mph battle of the world's best race car drivers, the world cup of engineering where thousand-plus people that work on each car determine the races more than the drivers, and the Real Housewives of the Garage, which makes for a fantastic Netflix show.
So what if you could build a living, breathing, physics based model of the entire grid, every pole line and transformer and watch how it actually behaves in a storm or when you plug in a wind farm or aluminum smelter sized data center.
If you think about the Apollo missions, NASA would design something. It was the NASA engineers and then they would bid out these sort of subcontracts to different people. Ultimately, it was a NASA owned and operated vehicle that they paid enormous amounts of money to someone else to build and then they'd run their own missions on it.
Formula 1 is the only motorsport in the world that requires a team to design and build their own car from scratch, which is an insane engineering feat to enter the competition.
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