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The Life of a Bolt

Oracle Red Bull Racing1 HN recommenders · 2023–2026
6.8M views · documentary · evergreen · Uploaded 2016-09-23

Oracle Red Bull Racing follows a single front suspension bolt through its life, from sketch and drawing through machining, testing, assembly and racing.

HN commenters cite it as an illustration of the extreme effort Formula One teams put into safety, performance and reliability for a single part.

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@eajakobsen2023 · in “Making a Single Bolt for an F1 Car Takes an Insane Amount of Work”

The video that "recently surfaced on Instagram" was uploaded to YouTube by Red Bull six years ago: [VIDEO]

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@marklubi2024 · in “A writer skewered the Formula One scene, then her article vanished”

The amount of effort (and money) involved in just producing an F1 car is astounding. I think The Life of a Bolt video does a really good job of illustrating just how far these teams will go for safety, performance, and reliability. [VIDEO]

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@num422026 · in “We're not done with point clouds”

In my opinion, it's not just robotics, there are so many processes involved in manufacturing a single high-performance bolt used in an F1 racing car. Life of Bolt(2016) [VIDEO] Most high quality systems performance relies heavily on high-quality subsystems to achieve optimal performance.

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