Post FOTA Shutdown and Pre Monza

It’s been a while, what can I say, my enthusiasm for blogging has been re-ignited, so here goes (thanks to Andreas and his son for the push)

This year has been tough in many ways. The relentless pace of development has taken a toll on the team. I could see tiredness creeping in, the good news is that a two week break enforced by FOTA means we head to Monza refreshed and ready for the final push of the season. Especially after a fantastic podium for the team at Spa (and Vitaly scored points too!). The shutdown is really important for us in IT too, we undertake a number of important upgrades and maintenance we simply couldn’t do during the season

On the IT side, we continue to focus our efforts for the track on statistical and strategy applications, saving engineers days (literally) of work – automation is one of the main drivers of my IT Strategy. We had quite a few upgrades for Spa, but with the shutdown, just a few small upgrades for Monza – here’s hoping the final races bring us our main target – finish 4th in the constructors championship – now that would be a huge turn around in our fortunes and well worth celebrating!