chrisc90 wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 19:49
Is the wind tunnel time allocated on a weekly/monthly basis or are teams free to use their allocation at whichever point through the season?
For example they could have used more of their tunnel time before the ABA to focus on 2023 car (which they likely did even after the ABA), then used much less between seasons, but then use more of the allocation when the racing begins and they can get a idea of any improvements they can make after seeing what the competition has come up with.
I don't know the answer to the "can they front load or backload" but from my understanding, Red Bull struggle to run to their maximum weekly allocation because of the slow windtunnel stabilization so it's very unlikely that they can frontload anything beyond the evenly distributed weekly time allocation.