DECEMBER 18, 2008

McLaren confirms Lenovo

As we exclusively predicted last week, Lenovo has joined forces with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. The US-based, Chinese-owned company will provide the team™s mission-critical computing solutions, both at the race track and at the team™s headquarters.

As we exclusively predicted last week, Lenovo has joined forces with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. The US-based, Chinese-owned company will provide the team™s mission-critical computing solutions, both at the race track and at the team™s headquarters. Lenovo engineers and technology specialists have already begun to specify the mobile wireless computing technology required by the Formula 1 race team as well as the fast and demanding desktop computing needs of the pit garage and pit wall battlestations. Lenovo technology is being integrated into the heart of the team as it travels the world on the Formula 1 calendar.

Formula 1 teams have long been pioneering users of high-speed computer technology, using trackside PCs to perform a wide variety of tasks ranging from starting the cars through to the complex analysis of thousands of data points transmitted from the cars to the pits during the races. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes goes a step further, however, supplying statisticians and engineers back in the UK with real-time race data from anywhere in the world. Such a complex operation provides an excellent platform for showcasing personal computing technologies that highlight innovation, reliability and performance.