Formula One engineer Caroline Hargrove

The Life Scientific

BBC

Technology, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Science

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

How do you convince Formula One racing drivers that they are speeding round the race track at Le Mans when, in fact, they are sitting in a simulator in the McLaren offices in Woking? Apparently it’s all about getting the vibrations right. Racing drivers really do drive by the seat of their pants. They’re also highly attuned to the sound f the engine and instinctively associate different sounds with different speeds. When Caroline Hargrove started trying to build a driveable model of a Formula One car many thought it just wouldn’t be possible. Today, all the major manufacturers of Formula One cars use simulators to help them design faster cars and improve driver performance. Caroline talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how she stumbled upon a job in Formula One and stayed for twenty years. And why she now wants to build digital twins for human beings. Producer: Anna Buckley

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service.
0:04.7	Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests.
0:08.8	Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook.
0:11.2	Technology doesn't want to be good or bad.
0:15.0	It's in the hands of the creator.
0:16.7	It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room.
0:20.7	If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing.
0:26.0	Julie, at your service.
0:28.0	Listen to all episodes on BBC Sales.
0:31.6	My guest on the Life Scientific today has worked with Lewis Hamilton.
0:35.0	What more do I need to say?
0:37.0	From Formula One to Digital Doctors,
0:40.0	Engineer Carolyn Hargrove specialises in pushing the limits of what's possible.
0:45.0	She grew up in Montreal and after a brief spell as an academic at Cambridge University,
0:50.0	she joined the Formula One racing team at McLaren.
0:53.0	When she started trying to build a simulator that would mimic the behavior of a racing car,
0:58.0	many thought it simply wouldn't be possible.
1:00.0	It's not easy to convince a driver sitting in a simulator in Woking that they're hurtling round a real racetrack at over 200 miles an hour.
1:08.0	Today, all the major manufacturers of Formula One cars use simulators to help them design faster cars and improve driver performance.
1:17.0	After 10 years in racing, Carolyn joined McLaren Applied Technologies and got to work with Team G.B. cycling team in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.
1:26.2	She's just started a new job with Babylon Health, applying some of the lessons learned from Formula
1:31.0	One to improvingving Primary Healthcare.
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