So sieht eine Formel-1-Fabrik von innen aus: Zu Gast bei AlphaTauri in Faenza!

around the machines are programmed here the work is 24 there is no discussion with the family of shares holidays of individual discussions the work of the station is fantastic that my favorite machine how often do you have the opportunity to see one of your Formula 1 factories the we have today and let's take a look at the halls of the Alpha Taurin factory, how do you see that behind me and now let's go in there. I'm in a special facility. I'll show it to you and then we're supposed to get it back. Here you say it and if we have to operate, yes, yes, yes, come on, you hear it from Franz Tost, the team leader at Alf Ator.

We weren't allowed to film everywhere during our tour. In a Formula 1 factory like this, some areas are also subject to strict secrecy and I remember that, for example, in 2013 I was also a guest at Mercedes at the engine factory in Brixworth. The regulations were even much stricter. We had to hand over our mobile phones and put them in plastic bags and in fact we only got them back after the tour was over. At the Euro entrance, it was a little more relaxed, they allowed us to film most of it, but some things were not available. For example, the update that was introduced before the Dutch Grand Prix stretched out in front of us with a completely new body.

These are, of course, images that we did not show you in this video at the beginning of our tour. Franz first explained to us why a Formula 1 car is actually created, what the most important components are and which departments produce which parts. Now we will analyze them together with Franz Tost, in the same way that Formula 1 parts are also analyzed. Their journey We went through the factory, so we start in the design office, where the engineers draw the parts mainly on computers and then we go through department by department until the cars end up on the truck. they are divided into different groups right in front The people who work for CA here then we have the wrapper presentation group and then here the group that is responsible for the work then we have a side note by the way, the lady who marked here the red arrow she who by the way Fabiana Valenti is the press spokesperson for Alpha Tory, who accompanied us on our tour, the system group back there had a break in the hydraulic suspension of the gearbox there we are connected to the wind tunnel with a piston that is supposed to be So live, it is in us, we see it if you are wondering, it is there, it is in England and not in Italy, so it is quite far from the Alv Atari factory in Faenza.

There, in England, however, is the Red Bull wind tunnel. Alpha animals use technology because in club life you don't have your own wind tunnel, Franz, how many employees do you have in total? There are several windows here. Actually, it is about the locations and also the smile outside. for everyone and what has arrived is true, that depends on the big band, that means that it is December, January, February, maybe 450 people come and normally during the year The 380 are renting workers through the contract in the summer . , so these are workers who come in from time to time when you need something quickly and we get them from agencies.

The first time is a purchase that may be a purchase in advance, but all the parts that we would not produce in-house are ordered there. , that means they are classical business economists, he in the end or or business people yes, those are business people, they are there yes, that is the office where they make purchases, some of us are now in meetings and then here. IT is very important. department in London, in the department there are a lot of people on the move now, so 16 people remember yes and that is very crucial because the operations in which you can still show yourself yes, the next stop on our tour is the operation fame and probably a of the Legendary Rooms Each of 1 factory, which is the room where the strategies are developed at home in the factory, where there is a virtual connection with the race track with all the data that the engineers on the track also have.

We see the glory of operations. on Wednesday before the April 2022 Formula 1 race weekend at Imola and on Wednesday, this means there is currently no free practice or race, so there is only one engineer there and otherwise a void enormous. The engineers sitting there receive data from the cars on the track. When you are at work, you analyze different strategic ideas, listen to the other teams' pit radio, etc., and then if you think about the people, we are If you have a wrong strategy in the race, you also give your strategy to those They have this directly on the track and that can make the difference that, when using gasoline, you can return to the pits at the end of the race because the engineers developed this idea in this optical zoom, that is, because they are sitting here then the Technicians are doing free training during qualifying and the race, logically, and they give us information about the route and that is very, very important, they have a precise vision. task assignment, then one is responsible for tires, tire temperature, tire pressure, tire wear, etc., others observe opponents and immediate opponents, others are for construction, etc. and they look at us and offer us information about the track that we can then process there accordingly, so it is very important for each team and because we all know that since the operation as a side only 60 people are allowed on the race track and it is for that the teams looked for this solution and found that these technicians are at home and give us information outside on the track, so we have 14 15 people who are here, yes, they help with the strategy, as I said, they all have a function, so they are the engineers, as I said.

Before the tires, Bernd watches the tire pressure, who watches the tire temperature, who watches the tire wear, who watches the Cologne ring, who watches the control, etc., etc. So I like it when information comes out, which is then grouped correctly and then governed accordingly, that of course also takes time and is a task Franz now there is a colleague sitting here, yes, what does he do if there is no race or test in Facebook or is it from the IT department, yes? But we know it in recent years, so we have to imagine it that way.

I said that it is very important and that there is a lot of work to do in the background and now everything is preparing for the first free training in Imola. the second free practice or for qualifying, the sprint race and for all the sessions there are 42 and 43 companies to remember and that always has to be configured in advance and immediately after the race we have simulator sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Milton Keynes and that has to be prepared now so that whether it's the training or the simulator, in the city, everything really works, it has to be retuned again and again and what made 22 a detailed question, we can see it here.

Channels under the monitors that are strongly reminiscent of what happened with the main screen and the Pitbull connection, yes, okay, that means somewhere you have a little button that can give you something so strong that in this case as a driver and so far he says about it Listening to face the radio of others, for example, Hamilton Science Russell de Klerk, etc., and then sitting here like listening to the radio, for example, in theory anyone can do that. Yes, do you have students there or are there employees from other departments coming? There on weekends and no, that's all?

No student is our employee, it is always the same people who do the same work, okay, that is very important because otherwise they will give you new instructions. That's too complex and. It takes too long for someone to catch it quickly, that means getting sick. Getting sick is not just for old leaders and only suits the young, by the way, a passage from our legendary olive oil interview with Franz Tost comes to mind that we can Maybe make a quick game of right now . We had an argument last week with our team manager because they made us have to leave the track on Thursday at 7 p.m. or 7:30 p.m.

I'll say, we'll ask, but he knows Formula 1. You love it, so the change was joyful. The engine keeps coming, the mother had quality, but pure engine power, so you didn't get up until 2 in the morning. or 1 in the morning in bed and you woke up at 6 in the morning. Well, in this video we don't want to show you the interview with Franz Tost, but rather the factory visit with Franz Tost. Thanks to the Alf ator factory in Faenza, we can now do exactly that. A brief note on your behalf. Please like it if you like the video so far and would like to see the link to the YouTube video on Facebook, Twitter or whatever social media platform you are on. in friends share that is a big thank you to us so now we go to production this is by the way this is the gas sly one we have two additional stairs here and the gassel staircase and this is the most hospitable one yes there are no fixed stairs no , that is also not successful for us if then escape this is the so-called model work, then the materials for the models were cut here, so there are different materials, such as carbon plates, six different ones start 18 20 and so on at 27 mm and these parts are cut here.

They stick here anyway and then they go out to machine work, he said, so imagine that first you have to make the model, then you make the shape and then you can make it as a part which means doing something with the finished carbon plates here , basically it is related to the raw material, no, that is not a raw material, these are the finished carbon plates, I will show them to you, then you should also look something outside, there would be gefrees cut parts, however, they are exposed to very forces , very strong, for example, the use in Monaco, but this material yes, they come, they are glued to the monocoque and then the threads are cut and then the bolts go in, so that even now, for example, a model like this eats , one day Baghdad will eat it if you take the papers in your hand like you did before.

Do you always forget everything in it or is it always something specific that you have everything? so I would say that 90 percent understand it, yes, because I know it well, I know the abbreviations and of course we know the abbreviations accordingly. So, like I said, here's model making, this is my favorite machine that the bank brings because The examiner's copy probably came to come in and then today it comes divided from what it is, for example, you can't have it because ten percent cent says It's on the right side for a sensor and a compass sensor, a CD for ground height. something to try and disadvantages of the wind tunnel that says, for example, now they say the opposite, lies that are from the author himself back then on summer vacation, now they are no longer in the form that 3D prints come, everything this is the same material, so you can have The material and raw materials should not be in front of the 3D printer, but now we have a new 3D printer in the other building that can make aluminum.

You already know about the cost of water pressure. He says yes, we have special agreement with company, yes. but concentration is to be expected, who depends on the 70 80,000 euros, but then we came up with the idea that, for example, the central bank has made some small ones and then we came to my favorite machines. Technology has to be programmed. on the machines, which means that it is not that the machine is very individual and how it works, but that it has to be constantly calibrated or the program has to be entered into each machine and then assembled.

Those are my favorite machines. a machining center here that makes super beautiful edge pieces that are works of art there could be that jewelry to reproduce the purely euro advantage and then the machine is programmed here that runs 24/7, there is no discussion with the shareholder family about salary discussions the Bangkok workers fantastic that my favorite machine like vision asks how many days have you been sick says the team leader is your country was created markus has never been for those who now have more of 40 years of working life on the application weight category of the conveyor for women now when the parts are manufactured then we have Here the quality control would perhaps be in the middle because the paper goes to the security system for many days, what do we say it works , then often only the system works like this: the citizens are closed and only certain people have access, then I have access and Thuringia receives it.

That means Fabian shouldn't be able to come here without you, big trend pony, but there is no access, yes please no more photos, so what you have there now, what Now, for example, a driver can have a lightning laser to zoom out, compare it with the drawing and then see it. He cancels it out to make it look like this, so why are we showing you this in detail? Do you remember going back to? September 2020. Back then, today's first Martin team was stillRacing Point and it was pink and there was a complaint from the Renault team at the time.to Racing Point because they said yes, these Briggs, the potentates of motorsport, the products were possibly illegally copied from Mercedes.

Her ex-boyfriend was fined 15 points in the constructors' championship and 400,000 euros because they said yes, we don't believe it. The fairy tale of Racing Point served in the sense of reverse engineering. Racing Point had claimed at the time that, well, we looked at the Mercedes very closely, took pictures and then copied some parts of this car in our sign offices, but completely. legally and not with a laser scanner like that. We see it here, many engineers said at the time that it would be a good idea to keep the camera, but you can't just recreate it based on reverse engineering.

They have a laser scanner for that. Like I said, people were found guilty of copying from the Mercedes. Have you ever seen the technology behind this? That means, for example, the readers with whom the first project was supposed to be. he had practical knowledge, that would be part of it, you would assume that was his, they almost wanted to, but that will happen. You can do exactly that and here, like I said, all the parts come in and then all the parts. the parts were subjected to quality control, so here also, for example, the cables, yes, here also, for example, each part has a production number and each part is very important because we have a precise definition of the mileage of the carbon tubes and it depends on 2000 km, something like that has to be changed, for example, something has been changed, for example when you say the mileage of the carbon parts because you say you want to have Spanish capt or or here you have the values. ​Prohibited 2000 kilometers for the line, says knife, there are still two today, so let's be curious, the risk is great, yes, so God had the discussion yesterday because with the big one it will be for all the teams as a very limited matter and , of course, you try to save. money and sometimes also extend the mileage, but that depends on which parts, like you can go here and say yes, a water pipe, yes, I can extend it now, but then it's you.

For example, the Aris is in or what else Think you have a defined race of 1000 kilometers to give an example, then you say extend 1500 or 1200 and suddenly after 1900 Harrison wonders why it is a Formula 1 car .Those are very high. Temperatures that are oscillations should be vibrations, etc., etc. yes, and you just have to take that into account, the defined mileage is calculated, that is, the technicians calculate how long the part will last and if you then extend this mileage, you run the risk of the roof breaking and you going out, you can calculate where . It's balance, what are you doing?

I am fundamentally against extending execution times, why because that was calculated as I said and because it is a crazy risk factor that you don't see the finish line or not yet, worse that there has been an accident. In the research and development department, for example, triangular handlebars were clamped, which were then subjected to suspicion, that is, to a stress test. Some parts were also broken intentionally, yes, here the device is placed where, for example, so that you can later check whether the planned break points are actually calculated in funds. It is, for example, a device to check that the subsoil complies with the four standards and, therefore, also the production and that everything is almost exactly as prescribed.

All tests were done for them. 4466 were also very busy, everyone was tied up here, but that doesn't mean the room itself, although then we are somewhere in England, not, of course, that our baby is, so to speak. , immediately because before her nose, for example, in the event of a crash like this, here we do a minimum of five to seven tests on our part and if we pass it, we move on to the fourth. It costs 1 4 crash tests, you have to do it. pay the numbers, well because the project of the four deposit boxes is not so much 100 euros or a nose.

The cost went down, the wall was destroyed, more logically destroyed, but you immediately lost 20,000 euros, yes, but you get the material to examine it structured way, for example, why now we click on yes, nothing, there is nothing else? We have normal again because then we have to examine what kind of high performance, high technology The device we have there, Franz, is nothing different from a vacuum cleaner and now they are coming up with the production of plastic, which was now mechanical, then the production of plastic can be called clean room lamination. The fact is that this is the room where all the plastic parts are manufactured.

The first thing you see there is that it says exactly when which part is produced and then you have to finish it because the group of autoclaves is waiting for the customers and there it is, each one has their own. screen, which means it shows exactly how the materials should be inserted and at what angle, this is very, very important and these screens are connected directly to the design office, which means that when there is a change, for example, then there comes out immediately, then before sometimes it took longer because what Germany has in the autoclave until now is the note that comes saying that it has to be changed, yes that works, now everything comes out automatically and very quickly, just like I said, that's the lamination, what you are doing in 6th place, we packed my story, I was expecting the tecdax to just come with new rules, they have gotten even more complicated and they are still there, why did I expect that?

Because the money. He is throwing himself out of the window, now here, for example, this part of the word here and he said yes with the pink, yes, the pink, and then you see that in the background and flowing, the white material that is there is white, which is made of composite materials. water the fire which is not what Hartz predicted that really Trainer stays and the aluminum foil covers it and for that it is very important that there is air between the layers, that there is air there but when the air is inside there and you have to imagine high load figurations of the Formula 1 car then master that then the piece breaks yes there can only be one door open at a time now it's okay everywhere immediately 6 yes when you get in there it goes faster because the lock is a that get in there it's usually colder and there's a negative pressure here and then you see Here's the white mat which is the fleece and the fleece comes in style and then comes the foil and then it's advertised and then there's the screen with the frame, well with the name, when the part is on the side of the autoclaves with red borders, it is essentially the upgrade plan that could now briefly, so at this point we have to ask for your understanding.

As you can see, we have a feeling. with our smartphones simply because our budget resources our channel is still relatively small. Because they are relatively limited, that means we don't have the television cameras and equipment that our colleagues at Sky Germany would use to invade such a factory, for example. but we do our best with the resources we have at our disposal and if you help us and want things to be a little better in the future, which we understand is the best we do, then write us a comment with comments about what you like and what you like. you don't like it and you can also support us by giving us a thumbs up and maybe even subscribe to the channel if you like our content because if you subscribe to a channel and also hit the bell you won't miss anything new. video in the future That is the oven, so to speak, why do our viewers call this oven an oven, which is the big autoclave, the big oven, the one in the middle, but two small ones, what happens now, put them inside and second, put these lines. i.e. for vacuum, let's say during the startup process it will also come, so is it so and why is there additional pressure from outside and then the individual part is baked accordingly, which means that the fields have material, it can it will be 20 minutes 30 degrees 40 minutes 60 degrees and so on it goes up depends on what material The changes are 100 120 degrees whatever and then it goes down slowly again then you should a little bit and then the part comes out and then it takes shape but you do it .

Yes, and there is a precise protocol for each baking process because it is very important. We know that this worked very well because when air enters, throwing it away Kassel style does not make sense and that the entire temperature cycle works in the same way. If I'm busy, now You will wonder what an oven or an autoclave really is and I will read Wikipedia out loud. It says that an autoclave is a gas-tight pressure vessel used for the heat treatment of materials under overpressure conditions. range and remains autoclaves For sterilizing, curing building materials, tires and belts, as well as for pressing fiber composite materials, they are used in medical technology, food technology, biology, glass industry, aircraft industry, stone factories and manufacturing companies. vulcanization and, to put it simply, also in the Formula 1 factories.

The carbon parts come in and harden, then the parts were removed, that is, this sheet and that is a woman and now she is in shape, yes, but The screws are removed and then removed. like each other and then the piece is urgent and then the sample comes out and then the work is done and it's fine, since now please, there are no photos, there will be the subfloor, yes, it is being prepared, get in there and there is slip , that means the surfaces are smoothed. In those weeks one of them would be cut to stone because the pieces are so finished that you have to install them directly, we drill holes to size and so on, the only thing I want is that now if you take something out of its shape that there is a such a small ball out of sight, so we did not drive after these stories of the compact reduced in size like this and then the pieces come from the fact that it almost sits and please do not film brand how high is the proportion of professions of white horse tact before that depends on which ones for what period of time around 400 400 Approximately how high is the ratio because now I frustrate it and cut it to size? training for that How high is the proportion of which the appointment was made?

He says the top level of the employer is 30 percent or 30 percent, so you already have those loyal offices, the field ladders, the fat ladders that have been around since 2012 and we said back then. the stairs are dedicated to the winner of the race in Monza and it was that Sebastian won his first with us in 2008 and that is why we have to say it here so that you can review everything a little, also from motivating artists and here also look at the model which is 25 % the model is also the original model of the channel 150 percent 50 percent the bear then celebrates a second victory that's why it's the one with the bridges he drove yes and no problem I have ideas for others they went up so it shouldn't Don't be on the height of that, now pick up count one.

Ready, now we go to carbon quality control, so bodywork quality control or fairing quality control. What you put here on the right side, that is the electronics department we want. So the wiring harnesses, the sensors are made. they are attached, everything works there, yes Max, you are still waiting for the right one, you will get the world markets. Ah yes, the organizational chart on the wall, yes, it's so nice to talk to Franz when I think about how. It changes for us, it changes every week. In the end, the power is so close, the fluctuation should not be so high, so that has already changed, it has already changed but not now, but why only the tooth team and the Baltic Sea and the game were fast than in the wind tunnel have these names that they have as an injection of motivation No, the fans already have that, some of the announcers were professionals, we had twelve world championship titles, of course we did, suddenly there were only four drivers together, that's the health and safety department, so please remind me, yes, that's the department besides 19.

Yes, that's what we have in the back. Then we have our PISA tests, there are the forms to differentiate, so that is the help. Department Meets You probably noticed throughout the video that we wear masks the entire time. You have to back up a bit and explain that our tour of the Franz Tost ball distributor took place on the Wednesday before the race weekend, Murat, this is very close. The Kogit window and regulations were much stricter than in Germany today. Our colleague Oleg Popov, who was filming with a second camera. The receptionists at Alf Atari almost let him in because he still had the window.

He passed green in Germany, but more than six months had passed since his last vaccination. In Germany, the green pass was valid for nine months, but it was only nine months. Six months after the vaccination we did a test and everyone was there. negative and it can still come from the factory but you can see that it has left its mark that is the hydraulics department hydraulics behind there should be clean room hydraulics the topic now in fact everything that has to do with hydraulics is the gearbox that It has 8 forward gears and one reverse gear here you can see the demand wolves mobilewhich are also used in airplanes that control the hydraulics then the clutch is put in here this is the bad bench this is a hydraulic pump it is also used in airplanes that means it makes the park bench at the waist What I do is simply keep the fluid hydraulic permanently with a correspondingly high pressure because I really feel very high, that is, if we talk about the fact that you have a defect in the hydraulic system, for example, which is actually electrical. in the broadest sense, that is, if the electric pumps are in the house and the pump comes out, then I will be led correctly, it will be the last operation, so it is good that the question is asked, is it the one that the press wants to seal my car immediately.

Why not, you don't want to say anything? We do not know. You have the recording, but let's take the example of Gessle in Bahrain. The battery burned out and for a tenth of a second. The car was completely out of power and then you saw there were flames, but where were the flames coming from? Then he had to examine everything, so sometimes it's very hard to say why. The car stopped and then I refused to say anything. I don't know what the reason was for a long time, but once you say what your electrical problem is, yes and it was a hydraulic problem, there is the whole electrical department, the electricians are totally angry because they have been accused of something because they take it as something personal. where there is nothing to do, that's why I think it's a delicate topic because you have to be careful not to discredit people, so the texts are social and academic and that's the animal.

Here you can see the break in the val system, this is very important, I already explained before that Monday is braked by the mpu k, now you have to imagine it like this, the engine is braked, then the rear wheels are also braked, yes and now it is possible for them to crash easily and. that some drivers can live with this in the bams phase, others cannot and with an interruption in the val system they find the trigger as well as the driver wants it and here we change the settings almost from corner to corner, so all drivers No It is the same for all drivers, but everyone's driving style is different.

Each driver has a different driving style and that is why it is important that you adjust the entire brake system optimally to the needs of his driving style and ask yourself where it is. it was programmed because sometimes we talked about electronics again and then you can see that there is a circuit board beforehand, all this author Johanna, but that is different, there is the motor control and it just disappeared, it seemed that the electricity did not No I imagine that the electronics department and this The electronics department then worked with 100, for example, yes and and also with the Red Bull technology in regards to the hydraulic system so that it can then be optimized.

You can also see it at. The YouTube timeline running there indicates that we are slowly approaching the end of our journey. Now we just have to assemble the cars and load them on the trucks. At that point, the Alpha Tier engineers and the mechanics of. ALF ATOR II is in it. So here the cars were prepped and set up and from there they now go down to the lift and stretch it out so they can do it in the area that we use for pit stop training in the winter months. In January and February we have training twice a day, in the morning and in the afternoon, and the mechanics also work out in between, but then on day 2, and like I said, that's very important right now.

Now this year with the new cars with the weight. tires 18 inch tires we are much heavier than the incident was so here we will support exactly the same here with the cameras with everyone exactly the same as on the track, therefore the cameras that are there There are six, in every curve, in every corner and the camera then analyzes it. This is the elevator and then it goes down so we can go down quickly. We could return to the question from before if cars are gone forever. They're trying to pass something around the corner. corner, they left yesterday afternoon, okay, today we are on duty on Wednesday, which means that if you are now looking for patterns, something in Singapore or somewhere and there are protests on Friday, Thursday and Friday, air transport is only free and Sea transportation is a sea transportation ticket two and three months in advance, for example, if the March in Bahrain first, the container leaves the first week of January 14 or moves outwards, then it would be a from there and then it would be fine and there directly on the exact day.

What would it be, for example, to order equipment? Secondly, what is requested is everything that is used to support the Foxray partitions. Everything that has a lot of weight, so to speak. Everything comes in summer. Everything five times and full freight. That does not mean anything. Not from the cars themselves, but not after the cars themselves, why, first of all, further development is the decisive factor when the container disappears in January and, finally, with the heart. In the meantime, you can have so many new pieces. the later development that you would not get anything good then the social department back then, that is, these are the years we had at some point Negotiating is or here is more direct exactly the same way back then the finance department has always ha existed or is one thing is that Kepler is supposed to increase it, which means that the person sitting there just has more work now, it will be a lot of work And what catches my attention is that it still has too few gray houses and also too many because you're putting a little strain on it, yeah, and then my workplace, it's what we already know, it fits perfectly now, lunchtime, lunch will be left behind when we're talking all the time.

What do you want to know and this interview that the press spokesperson Fabiana Valentini demands from Franz Tost? Then we did it together at Franz's favorite Italian restaurant. We went there in his private car and then we sat down. He spent about half an hour and not only talked about how much olive oil he puts in his salad but, above all, why today Formula 1 is perhaps too strenuous, as some always claim, despite the up to 24 races that await us. in the 2023 Calendar if you have not yet read the entire interview with Franz Tost If you have seen it, click again on the corner of this video that you mark with the red arrow and watch the video with the interview with Franz Tost