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Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305

Jun 27, 20261:29:36Watch on YouTube

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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Plaud - https://Plaud.ai/twist Sentry - https://sentry.io/twist Northwest Registered Agent-https://northwestregisteredagent.com/twist DigitalOcean - https://do.co/twist Today’s show: F1 teams spend up to a third of their budgets on aerodynamics, often utilizing wind tunnels to simulate what happens on the track. But Lyall Davenport of SKN Systems created a sensor-embedded tape that sticks directly to race cars as they drive around the real world, generating 420M data points per hour. And it comes in at roughly 95% less cost than running a full simul…