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What happens in the factory of the Mercedes F1 team during the night shift?


Mercedes-AMG Petronas has been making the best cars in the grid over the last few years. (AP)

When it comes to the Formula 1 racetrack, Mercedes-AMG Petronas is one of the formidable teams that inspires awe. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team has released a new video that gives us an insight into the inside of their factory and what happens there during the night shift.

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This video helps us to understand how the F1 team has built the best cars in the Formula 1 field over the past few years.

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The video helps us to understand how labor-intensive it is to build Formula 1 racing cars. The video shows a selection of automotive engineers working the night shift at the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team’s plant in Great Britain. It also gives us an indication of the scope of the team’s manufacturing activities that go behind the curtain. For a large team like Mercedes, the factory is always in operation.

Formula 1 cars are the epitome of aerodynamics and automotive technologies, which are used in the drivetrain, driving dynamics, etc. to form the body material. The video shows the importance of paying attention to the group of workers who make these racing cars.

The video shows how the bottom of the car takes about a week. It is of great importance to the performance of the car. The floor and the suspension of the racing car have to be measured by laser in order to function perfectly and with millimeter precision in order to achieve an optimal level.

For everything related to the wheels, every single part has to be scanned with a laser to ensure that it exactly matches the part that was developed in the design software. The F1 team, of course, wants to ensure that everything is manufactured and positioned 100 percent to the specifications required for perfect performance. This is one of the reasons why every part of these racing cars is so expensive to manufacture.