Red Bull Racings secret weapon? An engineer who treats workflows like lap times | TechCrunch

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  • Laurent Mekies became only the second person to lead Red Bull Racing in its 20-year history as an F1 team.
  • Mekies had been running the team’s sister outfit, Racing Bulls, for just over a year.
  • He sees performance gains not just in aerodynamics and tire compounds, but in eliminating friction from workflows and processes.
  • Mekies: “You are looking after the tiniest competitive advantage, one after the other,” he says.
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