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a new car actually starts a lot earlier
than people think it does and the w10
are 2019 car started actually in the
dying dying months of 2017 the earliest
parts of that new project are the chief
designers of the power unit over in HPP
and the chief designer of the chassis in
Bradley getting together to set out what
their aims and goals are for the new car
to try and figure out what the
opportunities were to find performance
that wasn't possible to build into the
last one but which we know would be
difficult and long-winded and therefore
we got to start really early thinking
about those things so early early work
is the chief designers meeting and a
group of very experienced engineers in
both companies called the concept group
that just try to weigh up lots of
different options very very roughly so
that we can see the type of thing mean

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A new car actually starts a lot 
earlier than people
think it does and the W10, 
our 2019 car,
started actually in the dying 
months of 2017.
The earliest parts of that new 
project are the
Chief Designers of the Power Unit 
over in HPP
and the Chief Designer of 
the chassis in
Brackley getting together to set out what
their aims and goals are for the new car.
To try and figure out what the 
opportunities were,
to find performance that wasn’t 
possible to
build into the last one but which we
know will be difficult and long-winded,
and therefore we have got to start really
early thinking about those things.
So, early work is the Chief Designers
meeting and a group of very experienced
engineers in both companies called the
‘Concept Group’ that just try to 
weigh up
lots of different options, very, very roughly

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so that we can see the type of thing we
might wish to bring to a new car.
In the popular imagination the winter is
somehow quieter than the racing season,
the truth is it is never quiet.
The truth is, it stays really busy
throughout the whole year.
You are conceiving and designing the
new car during the racing season itself
And then the winter is the point of the year
where all that starts to come together,
where all the hardware is arriving at the
factory ready to be tested, 
initially as individual
components, then as sub-assemblies,
then as major sub-assemblies and 
then as a final car.
But, long before the hardware ever 
got to the car,
there were design offices burning 
midnight oil,
releasing hundreds of drawings a day and
production guys and planners and buyers
just working frantically to try and 
get this huge

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we might wish to bring to a new car in
the popular imagination the winter is
somehow quieter than the racing season
the truth is it's never quiet the truth
is its stays really busy throughout the
whole year you're conceiving and
designing the new car during the racing
season itself and then the winter is the
point of the year where all that starts
to come together where all the hardware
is arriving at the factory ready to be
tested in initially as individual
components then a sub assemblies then
there's major sub assemblies and then as
a final car but long before the hardware
ever got to the car the were design
offices burning midnight oil releasing
hundreds of drawing synthetic and
production guys and planners and buyers
just working frantically to try and get

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volume of new material into the factory
in time for it to be assembled up.
Once the hardware starts to 
pitch up in the factory,
the torch is handed over to the 
people that build it,
the people that test it, 
the groups that ensure
that by the time we finally start 
turning a
wheel on a track, that pretty 
much every part of the
car has been fooled into thinking it 
is on a track and
has done thousands of 
kilometres of running
under the sort of loads, temperatures and
fatigue cycles that it will see when 
it is being used in anger.
The first fire-up is an interesting event
because everyone can hear it.
You have had a factory which has fallen
silent for a few weeks from the end 
of the last season,
to this moment where an 
engine leaps into
life in the factory again. 
And so even if you
are not down in the build shop where the

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this huge volume of new material into
the factory in time for it to be
assembled up and then once the hardware
starts to pitch up in the factory the
torch is handed over to
people that build it the people that
test it the groups that ensure that by
the time we finally start turning a
wheel on a track that pretty much every
part of the car has been fooled into
thinking it's on a track and has done
thousands of kilometers of running under
the sort of loads and temperatures and
and fatigue cycles that it will see when
it's being used in anger the first fire
up is a it's an interesting event
because everyone can hear it you've had
a factory which has fallen silent for a
few weeks from the end of the last
season to to this moment where an engine
leaps into life in the factory again and
so even if you're not down in the build

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shop where the race team have assembled
up with the help of others the central
core of the car the hydraulic system the
fuel system the cooling system the
chassis the power unit the transmission
they've assembled up the core of the car
doesn't look much like a racing car yet
it looks a bit more like Arnie
Schwarzenegger once you've torn all this
skin off and you've just got the sort of
Terminator beneath it's the first point
where you've got something that can
actually leap into life so everyone
around the factory even if they're not
there they hear it and and so it has a
certain emotional impact on us because a
motor is running in in the factory in
the current world the fire up of the car
is about half way through all of the
subtests subcomponent testing work that
gets you from first bit of hardware in
the factory through to being at
Melbourne ready to race. The car build
period is a really busy time of a

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race team have assembled up, 
with the help of others,
the central core of the car 
– the hydraulics system,
the fuel system, the cooling system,
the chassis,
the Power Unit, 
the transmission – they’ve
assembled up the core of the car.
It doesn’t look much like a racing car yet,
it looks a bit more like 
Arnie Schwarzenegger
once you’ve torn all his skin off 
and you have
just got the terminator beneath.
It’s the first point where you have got
something that can actually 
leap into life.
So, everyone around the factory 
even if they
are not there, they hear it. 
So, it has a certain
emotional impact on us 
because a motor is
running in the factory.
In the current world,
the fire-up of the car 
is about half way through
all of the sub component
testing work that
gets you from the first bit of 
hardware in the
factory through to being at 
Melbourne ready to race.
The car build period is a really 
busy time of

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Formula One team's life. The period
that immediately preceded the build
which is the manufacture is similarly
difficult and busy and the design that
created that also you know loading the
team to its hilt it's a sort of phased
thing where where different parts of the
team feel that pressure coming on their
shoulders they do their part and the
next part of the team then picks up the
load and carries on the interesting
thing is that the drivers throughout
this period are both physically absent
but ever-present in in this new car
because this is the time of year when
we're building and preparing the car
where the drivers are building and
preparing themselves for the challenge
that's to come in the next year so
although they're not physically present
the car itself is something
which they have played a big part in

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a Formula One team’s life.
The period that immediately 
preceded the
build which is the manufacture, 
is similarly
difficult and busy and the design that
created that, also loading the 
team to its hilt.
It’s a sort of phased thing, 
where different parts
of the team feel that pressure coming
on their shoulders, they do their 
part and the
next part of the team then picks up
the load and carries on. The interesting
thing is that the drivers throughout this
period are both physically 
absent but ever
present in this new car 
because this is the
time of year when we are building and
preparing the car, where the drivers are
building and preparing 
themselves for the
challenge that’s to come in the next year.
So, although they are not physically present,
the car and the car itself 
is something which
they have played a big part in.
Because every single track event that

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we have had over the preceding season,
every time that car has turned a wheel in
every practice session, in every qualifying,
in every race, at the end of those sessions,
the drivers sit with us and they tell us
corner by corner, lap by lap practically,
what the car was doing, 
where it was strong,
where it was weak, 
what they need to be different
if they want to be better and if
they want us
to be better. 
We write all those things down
and we pore over them, 
and we try to compile
them into a picture that we 
can then build into
this new car. So, they are not 
physically present,
but their voices are built 
into our programme and
our designs, in a way that we 
hope when we start
turning our wheels in Barcelona 
they will pick up
the car and they will see the way
in which we have
responded to the weaknesses 
and the strengths
that were fed back to us over
the previous year.
Ahead of us, the two really 
key winter tests

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because every single track event that
we've had over the preceding season
every time that car has turned a wheel
in every practice session in every
qualifying in every race at the end of
those sessions the drivers sit with us
and they tell us corner by corner lap by
lap practically what the car was doing
where it was strong where it was weak
what they need to be different if they
want to be better if they want us to be
better and we write all those things
down and we pore over them and we try to
compile them into a picture that we can
then build into this new car so so
they're not physically present but their
voices are built into our program and
our designs in a way that we hope when
we start turning our wheels in in
Barcelona they will pick up the car and
they will see the way in which we've
responded to the weaknesses and the
strengths that were fed back to us over
the previous year ahead of us the two

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really key winter tests but before that
the shakedown the shakedown is a very
limited number of kilometers that we get
to to do with the car ahead of those two
winter tests and the shakedown is our
first opportunity to find out whether
everything we did in the factory has
actually prepared a car that's capable
of going round a track and the shakedown
is our last opportunity our last
significant opportunity to make sure
that
the all-important 8 days of winter
testing just eight days that they are as
useful to us as they can possibly be and
we don't want those eight days
interrupted by any form of problem that
that subtracts from our opportunities to
maximize our track running so the
shakedown is vital for us as this sort
of final tick in the box to say yep good
job everyone we're ready to go in winter

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but before that, the shakedown. 
The shakedown is a
very limited number of kilometres
that we get to
do with the car ahead of those 
two winter tests.
And the shakedown is our first opportunity
to find out whether everything we 
did in the factory
has actually prepared a car that is 
capable of going
around a track and the shakedown 
is our last opportunity,
our last significant opportunity, 
to make sure that
the all-important eight days 
of winter testing,
just eight days, that they are
as useful to us as
they can possibly be. 
We don’t want those
eight days interrupted by any form of
problem that subtracts 
from our opportunities
to maximise our track running. 
So, the shakedown is
vital for us as the sort of final tick in
the box to say,
yep, good job everyone, we’re ready to

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go in winter testing. It is a 
shame in some ways that
the critical nature of that hurdle, 
the are we ready part,
overshadows to a degree the 
emotional impact of
the fact that this is the very first time
this brand-new car,
the recipient of so much love and attention,
is actually on a track. And it’s more, 
let’s make
sure that we have got everything ready,
that we use those precious kilometres 
and that
we go home at the end of 
that solitary day
happy that we are ready for Barcelona.
It tends to be the significance 
of the achievement,
the bringing together of all those 
thousands of bits
in harmony for the first time and 
going around
a track, tends to be playing 
second fiddle to
just the mechanics of let’s make sure 
we are ready
for the real thing, which is in a 
few days’ time.
But, normally, by the time you are 
going to bed
that night, if it went well and the relief
has sort of washed over you at that point,

English: 
testing and it is a shame in some ways
that that that the critical nature of
that hurdle there are we ready part in
overshadows to a degree the emotional
impact of the fact that this is the very
first time this brand new car the
recipient of so much love and attention
is actually on a track and it's more
that's let's make sure that we've got
everything ready that we use those
precious kilometers and that we go home
at the end of that solitary day happy
that we're ready for Barcelona and tends
to be that you significant of the
achievement that bringing together of
all those thousands of bits in harmony
for the first time and going around a
track tends to be playing second fiddle
to the just the mechanics of let's make
sure we're ready for the real thing
which is in a few days time but normally
by the time you're going to bed that
night if it went well and the relief was
sort of washed over here at that point

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there is time to reflect on the 
beautiful thing that
has been created and to hope that 
beautiful thing
will be strong enough and have 
the sort of performance
necessary to realise the hopes that 
have been invested in it.

English: 
there is time to reflect on the
beautiful thing that has been created
and to hope that that beautiful thing
will be strong enough and and and have
the sort of performance necessary to to
realize the hopes that have been
invested in it
