KingHamilton01 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2022, 18:28
Just curious as to why McLaren haven't decided to get the ball rolling like other team's with a filming day? surely gives them a big advantage in term's of correlation for part's and any future upgrades for the car? are they planning to run this the day before testing in Barca I wonder?? Obviously not that valuable as running for filming day is so short.
You don’t do correlation work during the filming day really… It is more of a simple shakedown (systems check)… For correlation, you would need to perform several different tasks, different type of aero rakes to measure how the aero is working on the car, ensure that you are running a significant amount of laps at a constant lap time to measure how it correlates to the model, etc.
With only 100km, and with other more important tasks (like the systems check mentioned before), the filming day isn’t one to be used for correlation work… No need to perform one too early before testing.