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Apex calibration data: the Yas Island pit-loss distribution, mean 22.0 seconds.
2026 · Studio product

Apex

A real-time strategy workbench for Formula 1

Year
2026
Role
Product · Architecture · Backend · Frontend
Stack
Python · FastAPI · React · TypeScript · WebSocket · scikit-learn · PyTorch
  • 498passing tests
  • livetelemetry stream
  • Monte Carlochampionship simulation

Figures counted at source, August 2026.

The problem

Formula 1 strategy calls are made in seconds and decide races. From the outside, the reasoning is invisible: tyre degradation, fuel correction, undercut windows, safety-car probability, all of it has to be weighed at once. Existing tools either show raw data or hand you a number without the reasoning behind it.

Approach

Apex is built as a workbench, not a prediction box. Physics-based models, machine learning and Monte Carlo simulation meet in one interface, and every recommendation can explain itself.

  • Live session tracking via OpenF1, streamed over WebSocket
  • Tyre degradation: online RLS estimators plus a neural model, with cliff-risk prediction
  • Counterfactual analysis: in-race and pre-race "what if we had" scenarios
  • Event-sourced lap processing: stint detection, anomaly filtering, fuel correction
  • Explainability engine: every recommendation ships with a sensitivity analysis
  • Natural-language race summaries in Turkish and English

Outcome

498 tests pass and the pipeline runs against live race data. What Apex demonstrates is this: deep domain complexity can be turned into a working, tested system that explains its own reasoning.

Building something?

Say what you want built; a written proposal follows within two business days.