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Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
How tech plays a crucial role in designing and building a Formula One car...

By Tim Ferguson

Published: Monday 10 March 2008

Red Bull Technology uses sophisticated computer aided design (CAD), wind-tunnel analysis and complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications to develop the car.

Due to the huge demand for computing power, the organisation runs a supercomputer and uses grid computing to support the development process.

Above is one of the Red Bull Racing cars from the 2006 season.

Photo credit: Tim Ferguson