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INDUSTRY
Sports, Media, & Entertainment
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Resilience
Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
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mission-critical race weekend services
40
business processes that support race weekend, strengthened and tested under pressure
425+
race-specific applications, vendors, internal teams, and supporting IT infrastructure dependencies coordinated behind race weekend continuity
PwC turned resilience planning into ongoing crisis support, so Formula 1 can respond faster when it matters most
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F1® and PwC: Resilience at full throttle
SITUATION
Preparing for what you can’t predict
Behind each Formula 1 race are broadcast engineers, race operations teams, timing systems and technology platforms, specialist suppliers, and countless decisions happening in real time. Some are visible to fans. Most aren't.
Extreme weather. Security events. Operational disruption. Tech outages. Any one of them can challenge even the most prepared organization. F1 worked with PwC to build on existing resilience practices, strengthening business continuity and disaster recovery. Focusing first on the race-day services where disruption could have the greatest impact and what teams would need to protect, recover and coordinate first.
Safeguarding what race day depends on
Not every system behind race weekend plays the same role; some connect the race to the world, while others help enable what happens on track runs as it should. Formula 1 and PwC focused the work on two mission-critical race -services: Broadcast Operations, which bring the live race experience to millions of fans, and Racing Systems, which underpin the timing, data and operational coordination every race depends on.
SOLUTION
Mapping what keeps race day running
Knowing what matters most was only the beginning. Next came understanding everything those key services depend on.
Mapping each service revealed a complex network of people, processes, technology, and third parties working together behind the race weekend: 40 supporting business processes and more than 425 race-specific applications, vendors, internal teams, and infrastructure dependencies. Take race timing data. Getting it from the track to race officials, broadcasters, and fans requires a chain of teams, technologies, and handoffs working together. PwC mapped that flow end-to-end, building F1’s existing operational knowledge to create a shared view of dependencies across race-day operations. With so many interconnected services, an issue in one area can have effects across others—making clear priorities for response and recovery critical.
And not every dependency carries the same weight. PwC developed an application-tiering framework to prioritize the technologies supporting Broadcast Operations and Racing Systems—sharpening recovery priorities and identifying where disaster recovery plans were needed.
The work also captured years of operational knowledge, documenting business continuity and system-specific disaster recovery expertise that had lived across experienced teams so it could be used more consistently.
Putting resilience into practice
Plans don't prove themselves on paper. They prove themselves under pressure.
So, PwC and F1 put them to the test. Across a series of realistic race-weekend scenarios, teams worked through different types of disruption and their potential impact. In one scenario, simulated technology maintenance issues reduced the resilience of the network supporting telemetry and timing systems. F1 teams had to identify the issue, coordinate across functions, and determine how they would respond if a second disruption occurred before full redundancy was restored.
The exercise tested more than individual systems. Teams worked through decisions in real time, tested communications, and practiced how they would respond together while race-day operations continued. Lessons from the exercises helped refine response procedures and recovery plans, creating a repeatable approach that can extend across additional services over time. The goal wasn't to predict each disruption, it was to practice the response before F1 needed it.
RESULTS
Ready when conditions change
F1 came out of the work with more than stronger plans. Teams have a clearer view of what keeps race weekend running, what to recover first and how to respond together when something goes wrong. Operational knowledge that once lived across experienced teams is now documented, recovery priorities are defined, and lessons tested under pressure have been built into ongoing procedures.
That makes resilience easier to put into practice. Business continuity and disaster recovery are more closely aligned, teams have clearer recovery priorities and response procedures, and critical operational knowledge is easier to use across race-day operations. The result is resilience that doesn’t just live in a plan. It’s documented, practiced, pressure-tested, and ready to put into action.
Resilience beyond race weekend
F1 now has an approach it can extend across additional race-day services over time. But resilience doesn’t end with preparation. Through an ongoing on-call relationship with PwC's Global Centre for Crisis and Resilience, Formula 1 can draw on a global network of more than 1,500 crisis and resilience specialists across 70+ countries who can mobilize when disruption occurs. PwC’s specialists bring hands-on crisis response experience across supply chains, manufacturing, cyber security and business operations—and can mobilize alongside F1 teams when disruption occurs.
Together, F1 and PwC are putting resilience into practice—preparing before disruption and ready to respond while keeping race day moving.
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“You can’t predict everything that could happen on a race weekend. Working with PwC gave our teams the opportunity to test how we would respond together before we needed to—strengthening the resilience behind the experience fans, broadcasters and partners around the world expect.”
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