The software to integrate the data from the sensors, and to manage the gearbox, comprises some half -a-million lines of line of code, which took some 20 person years to write. The gearbox can have up to seven different speeds - and if the timing of the changing of the gears is off by even a few thousandths of a second, the gearbox will self destruct.
It takes a lot of money and brain power to roll one of these F-1babes out onto the track. For example, Mclaren have a budget of about $500 million per year, and employs 350 people.
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