BWT Alpine F1® Team is all about speed and data.

Whether performing millions of simulations during R&D or analyzing streaming data from cars on the track, “quick data access, quick data analysis, quick decisions” is how BWT Alpine F1 Team gets its competitive edge with KX Insights.

 

 

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KX is the Official Supplier of Real-time Data Analytics to BWT Alpine F1 Team – enabling real-time data capture and analysis of millions of data points to power their competitive edge.

 

IN THE FACTORY

Provides a single source of data from the wind tunnel, test rigs, and dynos.

 

ON THE TRACK

Compare car telemetry to historical simulations in real-time.

 

WITHIN THE PARTNER COMMUNITY

Runs on Microsoft Azure for rapid deployment and scale.

When winning is measured in fractions of a second, making split-second decisions gives the team a real competitive advantage.

 

In its historic iterations, BWT Alpine F1 Team has competed in Formula 1 since 1977, starting more than 400 Grands Prix, winning 35 races, and claiming world championship titles in 2005 and 2006.

For several years, BWT Alpine F1 Team has utilized KX across the entire organization, in France for the power unit and in the UK for chassis and transmission, capturing and analyzing data across driver simulators, wind-tunnels, dynos, telemetry instruments, and sensors.

KX has become BWT Alpine F1 Team’s data science platform of choice, helping spot and react to problems before they happen, and identify opportunities to increase performance – in milliseconds.

In late 2020, BWT Alpine F1 Team signed a global enterprise deal for KX Insights to run on Microsoft Azure, enabling BWT Alpine F1 Team to scale up its real-time decision-making capabilities rapidly, and implement an operating model of continuous actionable business intelligence for enhanced performance both on and off the track.

 

Read Customer Success Story

Video Interview with Bob Bell, Strategic Advisor, BWT Alpine F1 Team

“The KX toolset – it isn’t literally just like a tool that you take out of a box, and you apply it to a problem. It’s much bigger than that. It does affect how you go thinking about your business. How you structure your business. How you approach it. And with that mindset, and if you adopt that mindset and you use it as an enabler to do other things, it will change the fabric of your business.”

Interview with Sergio Rodriguez, Data Science and Engineering Manager, BWT Alpine F1 Team

Sergio Rodriguez discusses the track and factory data challenges unique to Formula One teams, and how BWT Alpine F1® Team have benefitted from the relationship with KX as their official supplier of real-time data analytics. “We burst a lot of data – billions of data points…”

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“KX did a demonstration for us – prototyping – within half a day. It met all our objectives, and it was quite clear from the start that – when we were looking for someone to really partner with – they were the choice.”

Bob Bell, Strategic Advisor to BWT Alpine F1 Team

“One of the main benefits of using KX is that it’s not only a time-series database. We can add relational information so that it gives context to the engineers, enabling them to make much better decisions.”

Sergio Rodriguez, BWT Alpine F1 Team Data Science & Engineering Manager

“We run a billion simulations a year. That’s something like 40,000 simulations for every lap of every race through the season. You can’t just create more data, we’ve got to be able to understand it, and do more with it.“

Ian Goddard, Head of Technical and Innovation Partnerships, BWT Alpine F1 Team

“Real-time data is invaluable to Formula One teams – it’s the key source of the information that we have to make decisions. And having faster access to it will give us a fantastic insight into what we’re doing, what we’re going to improve, and how we optimize.”

Nathan Sykes, IT Business Systems Data Science Director, BWT Alpine F1 Team

“KX allows us to build up a like-for-like comparison, and if anything starts to deviate from what we’re expecting, we can actually really see what’s going on and interrogate that quickly. Significantly faster than a human can do it.”

Nathan Sykes, IT Business Systems Data Science Director, BWT Alpine F1 Team

“We’re all here to win a championship – that’s the main reason for us coming to work in the morning. And KX is one of the key implements which allow us to continually, gradually, increment and improve in all areas.”

Nathan Sykes, IT Business Systems Data Science Director, BWT Alpine F1 Team
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