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Inside McLaren’s Winter Olympics operation
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
The McLaren Technology Center in Woking, England, is home to not only the company's Formula One aspirations but also to a wing of its applied technologies venture MAT.
McLaren Applied Technologies
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
The MAT workforce focuses on technical strands in a wide variety of industries from energy to medical trials.
McLaren Applied Technologies
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
For its Winter Olympics project, two engineers are focused on helping the British team's bobsleigh and skeleton racing medal aspirations.
McLaren Applied Technologies
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
Caroline Hargrove project manages the Winter Olympics commitment at MAT, having working previously in F1 with McLaren.
McLaren Applied Technologies
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
Hargrove's main task was to build the F1 team's simulator, which is used by drivers such as former world champion Jenson Button.
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Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
MAT's work is not just on equipment such as the sleds used, but it also helps coaches with the athletes' physiological preparations.
McLaren Applied Technologies
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
MAT's first project with Britain's Olympians, following conversations with UK Sport, was with skeleton racer Amy Wiliams, who went on to win gold at Vancouver 2010.
Inside McLaren's Winter Olympics operation —
The team also worked on several different sports at London 2012, most successfully with Britain's cyclists as it shaved fractions of seconds off riders' times.