A team of specialized engineers to calculate each variable. There is also the “remote garage” behind Ferrari’s one-two in Bahrain in the F1 World Championship
by our correspondent Luigi Perna
March 23, 2022
Try to imagine a scene like those seen in the Apollo 11 documentaries or in the films about the landing of the first man on the moon. Also in Maranello there is a control room that resembles the NASA control room in Houston. It is located inside a building of the new Ferrari Sports Management and is a very secret place where cameras and photographers do not have access. In Formula 1 they call it remote garage. It is there that about forty engineers work from afar to contribute to the success of the redhead on the circuits. If on Sunday Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz managed to hit a fantastic double in the Bahrain GP that opened the World Championship, responding with perfect timing to the early pit stops of the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, it is also because the right strategic indications thanks to the live analysis of what was happening thousands of kilometers away. Racing has now become an almost exact science. Everything is calculated with absolute precision. Any parameter of the car can be monitored at all times, the variables related to the weather and the asphalt conditions and even the performance of competing cars, to determine the winning tactic. Therefore, for some years now the teams have equipped themselves with “remote garages” such as those of the Cavallino, which has one of the most equipped and avant-garde structures of the entire line-up, in order to support the work of the engineers and pilots who are in track.