Formula 1 comes up with a breathing machine for covid-19 patients

THE SEVENAMGThe EconomistThe Economist Today Formula 1 teams in Britain have high-tech engineering centres stuffed with the latest production equipment. And they employ hundreds of staff with the talent to use this gear to design, test and manufacture parts rapidly, in the days between races. With the season suspended, they have been collaborating on ways to help produce ventilators, which are needed urgently to treat patients suffering from covid-19. This week one team, Mercedes-, obtained approval for a device which it can quickly manufacture by the thousand.