- The quicker we can see the data,
the quicker we can make decisions, spot faults.
It's just, it's all about speed.
- Honda Performance Development is here
to go racing for Honda and Acura in North America.
So the driver of the loop simulator,
it's like a flight simulator,
but you fly your racing car.
- On the simulator model that we normally run,
we can measure so many things
that you could not possibly measure on the real car.
- For the track-side data,
we help provide that information to the simulator.
And then when the drivers and teams find things
that they want to try at the racetrack,
we then bring that back
from the virtual world to the real world.
- It is a huge amount of data.
- We've leaned on a lot of Microsoft technologies
to help us pull that data off the cars quicker,
get it to Azure File Sync endpoints
to allow engineers to see and analyze that data
almost in real time.
We're really kind of all in
on the Microsoft environment.
- Through Teams, the data will go up to the Azure Cloud.
We'll use Power BI to slice and dice it.
- It's really nice to have a place
where everyone can chime in and just like,
drop a quick note.
- The OneNotes, Microsoft Teams, all these things,
to try and push our collaboration and communication data.
- So that people learn to work as a team,
that's where racing works really well.