Accelerating Performance

The history of Scuderia AlphaTauri It started when Red Bull decided to buy the Minardi Team; and then we started here 2006 with around 85 people working for, in those days, Scuderia Toro Rosso. It was in 2020 when we decided to change the name from Toro Rosso to AlphaTauri; Got now I must say it to a team which has around 480 employees, permanent during a year now in the big times we have around 550 to 600 people. You could see really in this history that the team developed quite well.

There are two topics for this team. First of all, use the synergies with Red Bull Technology, and the second important pillar for the team is to educate young drivers from the Red Bull driver pool.

F1 is extremely competitive, you get the 20 best drivers in the world racing each other with the fastest cars in the world.

I think everyone has talent, but you need to add extra work than others to make a difference compared to the other drivers.

Any technical partnership is crucial for us, and especially the partnership and the cooperation with Epicor, because nowadays I must say that Epicor manages the team.

The big step that we made is that we have now the availability of the information that the people need to make their daily work. They use tablets to enter their production time information and as soon as they update the data, the information is then displayed on the screen of the following department.

Every day we receive a lot of different requests to make car parts, car equipment, toolings, and it is incredible how much work you can find behind the components, how much is difficult to plan and produce all the car parts in time, and how many people are involved.

The main improvements are the communications, the time saving and at the end the performance, because now people are not spending time to enter data within the system or to look for the data around the company. So at the end we gained a very good team performance using Kinetic software.

For sure you can see an improvement in terms of performance on the car because our engineers decide the better setup only based on what is best for the performance of the car and not on what is available to race. So with all these new tools for sure we can make more parts in shorter time with a more reliable data.

During the race, any part of the car can run a specific number of kilometers and no more.

We must not forget a Formula One car, there are many, many pieces in them and we have to take care for all of them.

During the year, our engineers decide what part do we want to develop more than others. And it depends not only on the track, but also on the part available on track. So you have to make a match between the stock level that you need on the car.

So what we will do is we work seven days on seven, three shifts, night shifts, and every time we are ready to react and to reply to all the requests we receive from the track side.

F1 is very much a team sport, way more than what people think. You can't win a world championship if everybody is not working well together, so communication is extremely important.

In the past, it was always very complicated to get really everything together. For example, a wishbone, how many miles does it have? when is the lifetime finished? And now with Epicor after each run, they put in the figures and they get immediately a result which tells them, okay change the part or the part can stay in the car.

After each single race, we check on each single serial number if it has the number of kilometers that it can run or the number of kilometers that needs a service on, we check this kind of information within Kinetic and then operations gets the part, they do the service or they change it if it is needed. So at the end, we can choose the best piece to be fitted on the car.

Teamwork is really important. I really always enjoy how the car and the teams are developing race by race and getting stronger race by race.

F1 is all about technologies, it's pretty easy to see the evolution from when F1 started, the sport and the cars have evolved so much. Technology is fundamental in aerodynamics, is fundamental in the supply chain so in the procurement, but is also fundamental at the track.

Formula 1 is a very fast-living business. It's changing so fast everywhere, and to speed up the processes, because this is at the end also performance, we need a partner like Epicor to provide us with the software, to optimize all these processes and to make them efficient.

We are not a standard company let me say. We make a Formula 1 car, that is something really strange that you cannot see usually in the real world, so to have a flexible system, very fast, is something very important to us.

The car will improve after the race throughout the season, based on what we said after the ride or after the session, and team will analyze it in the data. Each member, each engineer, we all give our feedback to understand what we can do better, what went well, what went wrong, and basically how to improve the performance we are showing on track for the next session. Every time that we decide to improve a part of the car, it means that the parts are changed. Epicor Kinetic helped us very much to make big steps forward in terms of communication because now any user that requires some information, we can build up a solution for them.

Our life is easier now because the system is very flexible, very fast, and one other thing that for us, for our business is very important, Epicor is very easily customizable. Scuderia AlphaTauri is aiming to get more and more efficient in the next years.

We are pushing to get better performance, better communication, and especially better decision based on data. I really hope that in five years the team will belong to the top runners in Formula 1 because Scuderia AlphaTauri improved a lot in the last years, and if we continue to develop the team, then in five years time we must belong to the top teams in Formula 1, and this is, of course, the target.