F1’s Project Pitlane
Pat Symonds reveals how Formula One teams joined forces as part of Project Pitlane to support the development of ventilators across the globe.Â
Red Bull Advanced Technologies worked together with Renault F1 to develop the Blue Sky ventilator
On the 17th of March, Pat Symonds received a phone call asking if F1 could get involved in the VentilatorChallengeUK. This is an initiative, led by Catapult, that brings together engineering companies from the motorsport, aerospace, automotive and medical sectors to rapidly manufacture ventilators. At the time, F1 was in its voluntary shutdown, waiting for races to be confirmed and the season to start.
?The teams were essentially sitting in idle and it would have been a tragedy if we had such an incredibly competent group sitting there doing nothing,? says Pat Symonds, F1?s Chief Technical Officer. ?So I made a few phone calls and five days later, we convened a meeting at Red Bull Advanced Technologies in Milton Keynes. We had representatives from all UK F1 teams as well as some people from Olympus medical. We also had the COVID lead from the Association of anaesthetists, the national clinical lead for innovation for NHS in England and we had members of the military because a device that we worked on a lot had roots in military operations.? The F1 teams, along with their associated technology arms, supported the development of the Penlon ESO2 and the Smiths ParaPAC300 ventilator, helping to scale up production. ...
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