Drivers "developing" a car
Discussion
As per the title...does this happen any more and what/how do they do it?
It seems like so much happens with modelling/simulation and very small amounts of test time that I'm not sure what a driver actually does.
We all hear a driver say things like "no rear grip", or too much oversteer/understeer...but surely there's more to it than that?!
Any help appreciated.
It seems like so much happens with modelling/simulation and very small amounts of test time that I'm not sure what a driver actually does.
We all hear a driver say things like "no rear grip", or too much oversteer/understeer...but surely there's more to it than that?!
Any help appreciated.
Halmyre said:
http://www.formula1.com/inside_f1/rules_and_regula...
According to 'the rules', you're limited to 15000 test kilometres in a year; that's about the equivalent of 50 full-length races. I suspect that most cars come off the drawing-board (or CAD system) ready-to-go, and if it turns out to be a dog there's little or no time for a test driver to improve on it.
I notice that teams are limited to the amount of computational fluid dynamics work - how on earth can the authorities monitor that with any sort of reliability?
Thanks for that...but what I'm wondering is what does the driver actually do in this process?According to 'the rules', you're limited to 15000 test kilometres in a year; that's about the equivalent of 50 full-length races. I suspect that most cars come off the drawing-board (or CAD system) ready-to-go, and if it turns out to be a dog there's little or no time for a test driver to improve on it.
I notice that teams are limited to the amount of computational fluid dynamics work - how on earth can the authorities monitor that with any sort of reliability?
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