Motorsport TechnologyFor the Hendrick Motorsports team, partnered by Acronis, is was yet another successful outing at Charlotte ROVAL meaning that Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott and William Byron all advance to the Round of 8.
It was 2021 champion Larson who took the fight to the opposition, leading on four occasions for a total of 27 laps against eventual winner Shane van Gisbergen.
Byron and Elliott will join Larson as contenders for ultimate glory with Larson and Byron are currently tied for third, four points above the cutline with races at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and Martinsville Speedway ahead.
Elliott had already clinched his spot in the Round of 8 with a victory at Kansas Speedway last week. With nothing to lose, the No. 9 UniFirst Chevrolet team used a bit of a different strategy and Elliott had enough speed to power his way up to the eighth position.
“We were trying to do something different on the strategy front. Unfortunately, never really went our way,” Elliott is quoted on the official Hendrick Motorsports website. “I thought our pace was actually respectable. To get restart, you know, in the mid-20s there behind 20th place on a couple of occasions and get back inside the top 10, I feel like we were decent.”
Elliott will begin the next round of the postseason 14 points under the cutline in a tie for sixth.
Aided by some last-lap chaos as other drivers shuffled for points position, Byron landed just short of the top 10, finishing 11th. The regular season points champion competed in a special paint scheme on his No. 24 Valvoline/Blood Cancer United Chevy on Sunday, one designed by pediatric cancer patients.
Rounding out the Hendrick Motorsports runners was Alex Bowman, who came home 18th.
Article courtesy of Hendrick Motorsports Official
Hendrick Motorsports Switches to Acronis Cyber Protect to Support All Devices and Application Data.
The Championship-winning NASCAR team also implements Acronis Machine Learning to address a unique photo classification problem it faced during races.
Hendrick Motorsports is a NASCAR racing operation that fields four Chevrolet teams in the NASCAR Cup Series. Since its inception in 1984, the team has won a record-setting 13 championships in the top-level Cup Series. Located in Concord, North Carolina, Hendrick Motorsports sits on a 100-acre campus, which includes 14 buildings and has a team of more than 600 employees.
In terms of its cyber protection needs, Hendrick Motorsports had a diverse set of needs ranging from daily backups of all devices, all engineering and wind tunnel data, and supporting the unique needs of its mobile data center during races. Before Acronis, the company was using a competitor product to back up its servers and virtual machines.
THE CHALLENGE: PROTECTING OTHER WORKLOADS
Hendrick Motorsports needed to protect workloads that its previous provider could not support, and this came in two distinct forms. First, the company was not backing up its endpoint devices or the Microsoft 365 data it used for communication and collaboration including mailboxes, Teams channels, and Sharepoint sites.
Furthermore, Hendrick Motorsports’ previous backup and recovery provider did not support backups to multiple locations. The company rightfully wanted to keep backups in more than one location and take advantage of cloud targets for backup as well implement a disaster recovery solution.
The second distinct form of workload protection Hendrick Motorsports couldn’t support with its previous provider came from the IT infrastructure at a race event itself. In addition to setting up a mobile data center at each race with over 50 virtual machines that remotely connects back to headquarters, the team was receiving a significant amount of photo data during races. Hendrick
Motorsports would send and receive up to 5,000 pictures during a 3-hour race, or a high-resolution picture every two seconds. The company needed a way to store, organize, and search these photos for analysis.
