Manor and the winds of change...

[groomi]

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/...

Manor are apparently not going to do any wind tunnel work at all. None. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. They are relying solely on CFD which sounds like a major gamble to me and probably evidence that they really don't have a sufficient budget to do F1 properly.

[groomi]

Mr_Thyroid said:

Wind tunnels are incredibly expensive and the result you get from them aren't necessarily easy to interpret - especially when testing cars.

Likewise CFD. Which is why every F1 team of the past decade or so has used both as a cross-check.

[groomi]

zac510 said:

philis said:

Wind tunnels are a waste of time for the spectator, yes they make the car go faster round corners, but it always results in the cars behind going slower with the whole "dirty air" conundrum.

So whats the point in racing?

The point of course is to get your car to the front, to win the race, to win the championship and all the fruits that go with it. They're not entirely just there to please you, despite what you seem to think!

And cars are designed to do exactly the same thing whether with wind tunnels or CFD or both.

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skeggysteve said:

If I remember correctly the first time a real driver took the 917 down the Mulsanne and said how unstable it was the Porsche engineers said the computer said it would be alrigth - the driver replied let the fking computer drive it then!

I imagine he meant drawing board...