BrrrakeF1 - Understanding How Race Data is Used in IMSA & WEC

Motorsport, like the rest of the modern world, runs on data. Everything in IMSA and Sportscar racing, including power and performance systems, safety and scrutineering and even race control, must be kept up to date at all times, and that's where ‪@boschmobility‬ step in. In part 3 of our series, we sent Blake Hinsey / ‪@brrrake‬, former Formula 1 Performance Engineer, to the Daytona 24 race to chat with teams, drivers, IMSA themselves and more to find out how data is used to produce such exciting and fast-paced racing.
0:00 The Data Behind Endurance Racing
1:07 How is Data Used in IMSA
2:30 Sending Data To Everyone
4:00 The Importance of Data
5:07 Problem Solving in IMSA
5:58 Securing the Data
6:43 Drivers Jordan Taylor & Earl Bamber on Data
8:57 How IMSA's Race Control Works
11:26 Data Powering Race Control
13:30 Looking to Scrutineering
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[@moe85moe85]

Very good behind the scenes of what it takes!

[@scottb9868]

I was wondering why we hadnt seen any Braake F1 analisys. Bumbed but happy for him.

[@brrrake]

Racecars have taken over again. After Le Mans things are much less busy so hopefully I can share some more things!

[@khawajadotd]

This is the first one of these that I've seen, and it is EXCELLENT. Well done, folks.

[@AmbientMike]

Love Blake! such a fantastic asset to bridge that gap between engineering and fans in a really digestible way

[@lukasflorencio9713]

High quality content! Bring more Brrrake

[@dap177]

Blake FTW

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

YES YES!! I have been waiting for this one for a hot minute now.

[@imsaofficial]

Thank you for surfacing all the incredible work @boschmobility does at IMSA!

[@321-Gone]

6:41 - The mustang gt3 officially has the tallest pito tube in pito history.

[@khawajadotd]

oh wow, you aren't kidding!

[@williamford9564]

8:40: This cracked me up. You can't lie any more about being "flat in the kink".

[@EyesOfByes]

LTE? I took for granted it was Sub6GHz or mmWave. Mostly for the lower latency

[@hoverpilder1905]

BLAKE !!!!

[@itswits2719]

For what reason would they do data for all cars except LMP's?

[@Noormis]

LMP2's are all the same car and don't use BoP therefore my guess would be that the LMP2 suppliers, in IMSA's case Ligier and Oreca take care of the data themselves. while for BoP reasons Bosch does it as a third party

[@TheSkunktruck]

for the algo

[@Graham185]

Nice to see the faces that jumped the gun and ended the race early 😂

[@justinsmalley4111]

So the BOP makes it so all the cars pretty much run the same speed….so that will make for less passing. Great.

[@Formula1st]

No, not at all. The cars run at different paces depending on the conditions, often one car is comfortably the fastest during the night then a different one is faster in the day. If it wasn’t for BOP, one car would probably be faster in all conditions and would win easily with less overtaking. If you actually watched it, you would see there is plenty of overtaking :)

[@brrrake]

I'm not sure that's how it works. If you've not watched an IMSA race, I highly recommend it! Make up your mind then 👍

[@12th.jahlil]

It makes for more passing, if cars arent equal then itd be like F1 tbh, minimal passing and after a quarter of a 24 hour race itd be a parade

[@DJDouglasWarden]

Another commercial

[@Formula1st]

And? It’s still interesting

[@daveao686]

Who tf cares? It's all bloody interesting.