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Originally Posted by Willem Fick
I just loved how "basic" things were at the time. They seem to be working in a facility that is not that much better than a shed, and everything is done by hand. Imagine how state of the art ECU's and cabon fibre must have seen at the time! Imagine, no CAD, no computer simulation, no FEM, no CNC...
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Willem, you must have missed it, they say during the film that a run of a couple hundred engines for F1 wouldn't be worth the expense of CADCAM, that's why they made the engine molds by hand the old fashioned way.
I got a kick out of them worrying about someone breaking into the line between the US-Britain to steal the info being transmitted between the sites. Hackers?
I too thought this would be more about the late '50's, early '60's years too, but thoroughly enjoyed watching the whole thing.
I can't imagine anyone thinking that any good data would be gained from testing in such cold conditions (6* below freezing
), but I guess they really wanted to keep it secret.
Thanks for posting the link!