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Formula One Racing - Science and Engineering Off the Track
There is so much science that goes on around formula one. Thousands of engineers come up with great ideas to make cars go a second faster. And those ideas spill out into our world, and we don't even know it. In march 20 20, we didn't have enough ventilators to keep people alive. So university college london created an airway machine based on the model used in Formula One racing. Within 30 days they had produced ten thousand of them for the enecet. The quality of engineering that they can do and the speed in which they can do it is phenomenal. It saved lives during the pandemic.
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