Inside the secret world of a Formula 1 Factory

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  1. Metalman

    Metalman Well-Known Member
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    agranger MINI of the Month June 2009
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    Great read. Thanks!

    Have you ever seen a fab shop kept so clean?
     
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    That was fun.....
     
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    Very Nice... With all the money in F1, I wonder what those guys sitting in the room in the first pic are making per year...
     
  5. Angib

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    Ummm, read on. Last night in UK, the BBC broadcast a documentary on the production of McLaren's new MP4/12C supercar - I presume that this BBC iPlayer won't work for anyone in North America:
    BBC iPlayer - How to Build...: Series 2: A Super Car

    So at 2:30 Ron Dennis is guiding the video crew across the main display hall, explaining how he seeks perfection in everything and picks an example of a broken floor tile in front of him, but points out that it can't be properly fixed, pointing to a tile that had been replaced some time before and wasn't a perfect colour match.

    Later in the program they are covering the move of the MP4/12C production into a new factory just built next door and the relevant manager describes one of the hold-ups they face - the castors for the production jigs and trollies have arrived with the wrong colour rubber tread which is several shades of grey darker than wanted, so they all are sent back.

    But you won't catch me using the word 'obsessive'... oh no. But 'clean' - yes.
     
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    ......and Lotus isn't winning. :-0 LOL
     

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