Google Blog: Check out Street View’s new collection with McLaren Racing. “Since Google became an official partner of the Formula 1 team last year, we’ve worked to create an exclusive Street View experience that takes fans behind the scenes at the McLaren Technology Center (MTC), the headquarters of McLaren Racing and home of the McLaren Formula 1 Team in Surrey, England.”
TechRadar: Exclusive: Amazon is helping Formula 1 preserve its history with colossal video archive. “Amazon Web Services and Formula 1 are working together to migrate decades of race footage to a centralized database in the cloud, the pair have revealed. The archive migration project is an extension of an existing partnership between the two organizations, the main objective of which is to create superior experiences for fans on race days by utilizing the latest cloud analytics technologies.”
BBC: Coronavirus in Formula 1: Mercedes make breathing aid freely available. “Mercedes has made the design of a new breathing-aid device it helped develop freely available to help fight the coronavirus crisis. The device helps patients with lung infections breathe more easily when an oxygen mask alone is insufficient. The device was designed in conjunction with University College London.”
The Drive: Formula 1 Absorbs Classic Footage Archive For Streaming Service. “Formula 1 announced Friday that it has attained the Brunswick archive, the biggest collection of pre-1981 footage of the sport in existence, which it will digitize for viewing on its F1 TV streaming service. Prior to the announcement, the archive footage collection spanned 1981 through 2001 and consisted solely of the recorded broadcasts from regional stations. Starting in 2002, the global broadcast was standardized, and content rights lay clearly with the sport itself. With the acquisition of the footage, digitization of pre-1981 can begin so F1 TV subscribers may watch it online.”
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