Building the greatest racing spectacle on the planet | DHL & F1

all for a crayon are doubly stuck Bertie screwed three wins during the 2019 season Formula One traveled to 21 locations around the world and in this sport where every second counts, hundreds of people worked behind the scenes to ensure the teams were ready to reach the end. track on time at each circuit, from the first practice in Melbourne in March to the checkered flag in Abu Dhabi in December, one of the most challenging motor sports in the world and to compete at the highest level is surrounded by ten teams. With best-in-class facilities at temporary headquarters in 21 different locations, with the help of DHL, more than a thousand tons of equipment worth millions of dollars are transported to each race around the world, including body technology, tooling, catering machinery and facilities, meeting spaces. and everything needed to broadcast the action on the track around the world, each of the team's temporary headquarters is built from scratch and broken down, packed and stored ready to be unpacked at a new location on the other side of the world So how does one of the largest work?

Global sporting events come together to bring the same exciting experience to different corners of the world. Planning with the DHL logistics team takes place months before the Australian Grand Prix to ensure everything and everyone involved in the Formula One experience is ready for action. Most of the races take place outside of Europe and are commonly known as flyaways, as these trips require specialized expertise from the DHL operations team to create a customized solution that provides an efficient and sustainable way to ensure everything is where it is. It must be and in the right place. At the start of the season, five sets of identical shipping containers leave the UK bound for the first set with flying runners.

These shipping containers carry around 200 tons of ocean and the rate has been classified as non-critical foodie performance, which includes cats, cars and cooking. equipment, as well as items for the hospitality areas and the fan zone at the track, shipping this heavy cargo is a more sustainable way to ship these containers around the world, as the CO2 emissions are much lower than those of the air traffic, which helps reduce the carbon footprint of the championship. Each of these boats will sail in a skip pattern throughout the season carrying their cargo to the next flying regatta. The five cargo sets sailed from the United Kingdom to Australia, Bahrain, China, Azerbaijan and Spain, the set going to Spain.

Picked up from the UK and transported by road across Europe, each set will travel to various destinations throughout the season, so the set

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the Australian Grand Prix will travel to Canada, then stop in the UK before of going to Singapore, Brazil and then back to the UK, although freight is the same way, each track offers its own logistical challenges and opportunities to create a memorable

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experience for long-time fans, as the circuit of Marina Bay is on the streets of Singapore, offering its own logistical challenges as the roads can only be closed during certain times of the day.

In Formula One and DHL work with the teams 24 hours a day to bring the night race to life, in addition to

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the paddock area, concrete barriers, cache fences and temporary bridges must also be erected to create the temporary circuit. Singapore is one of five back-to-back races where races are held just seven days apart, much of the team in Singapore needs to go to Sochi in Russia, so during Platform D and the count three minutes, Singapore hosts the famous F night race, so the teams work on the race operation. We also have to change from day shifts to night shifts, although most of the loads will already be waiting in Russia for some teams classified as critical flyers with each of the 10 F1

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teams; each circuit labeled critical means the race cannot take place without it, including Pit Stop Equipment IT Service Secure data links and enough components to build up to three F1 cars.

Transporting Formula 1 cars requires precision and care. Individual car parts can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to manufacture, making it a valuable burden to transport dismantled cars. Even the last components, the engine gearbox, front and rear view mirrors and suspension parts are removed and individually packaged in custom cargo containers before being transported to the next race and, in the interest of race fairness long distance races, teams can only start their builds once. The last piece of cargo has reached the circuit as most of the circuits do not have inbuilt transmission facilities. The Formula One production team travels from race to race to assist in the construction and then fully operate the broadcast sensor which is capable of transmitting the action from 126 cameras to more. in more than 170 territories around the world thanks to some 60 kilometers of wiring every three, five days after Sebastian Vettel won the Singapore Grand Prix, the Formula 1 television broadcast center is now operational in Sochi, ready to televise the Russian Grand Prix to an audience of over 500 million people worldwide Nine of F1's races take place in Europe and, as most teams are based here, freight travels by road To the eight races in continental Europe, teams transport their goods directly or through their logistics partners, who also provide fuel. suppliers television broadcasters and hospitality suppliers transporting goods from A to B let's take a look at the construction at Silverstone in the UK the historic circuit that hosted the first timeless World Championship in 1950 convoys of trucks will transport everything the teams need to operate During the race weekend at the Silverstone circuit, a week before the site is open to ticket holders, construction of the paddock will begin over the next five days, 27 trucks will unload their cargo at this site of 675 square meters that will be transformed into the headquarters of Formula One.

Grand Prix operations, from BOTS to the Formula One television broadcast sensor, will be transported here and powered by 40 generators on the track. The race teams arrived three days later to begin construction of their paddock areas and that's when the magic of the Grand Prix begins to take shape as the teams build their pit and drive walls, the Formula One team builds the pit area. fans and race hospitality areas to provide on-site fans from Champaign to show cars as part of the ultimate experience for Wednesday of race week. The paddock buildings will have taken shape, some are over 10 meters high and contain everything needed to manage energy and power the Formula One teams.

Now it's time to start unpacking the most precious cargo: the race cars. Formula One, the teams will rebuild the cars and have them. fully operational in time for Friday practice, some will even have time to deliver upgrades to their cars in just seven weeks DHL will have helped transport F1 operations to five different locations across Europe, including two consecutive operations during the longest season To date the tireless work and meticulous planning and collaboration between DHL and the F1 teams allow for a seamless transition from the world of F1 to bringing the action to fans around the world.