Goodbye 20,000-cell Excel spreadsheet: How Williams’ new F1 car build system works

It was a moment that caused jaws to drop aplenty in the 2024 Formula 1 season: Williams team boss James Vowles revealing he’d discovered his then still-fairly-new squad was using a single, gigantic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to itemise its entire car build package.
The list ran to multiple thousands of cell entries – an approximate figure of 20,000 was at one stage mentioned – on a …Keep reading