MrGapes wrote: ↑19 Jul 2023, 12:36
Oddly no updates on the current status of the wind tunnel or simulator...maybe they will shift after the summer break when it's 100% focus on the 2024 car...
Maybe they want to compete the ongoing 2023 development in cologne before shifting...
Are they allowed on work on cap ex projects during factory shutdown? Or is it 100% shut down..
It's interesting that IF the current development is successful as early performance has raised confidence so far, then it's not the wind tunnel or other infrastructure that has held them back.
The attitude has to exist that puts contemporary ideas of value into both CFD and then to wind tunnel etc, irrespective of the hardware location.
The ideas drive the research, it won't happen the other way. We are sometimes given view of the fantastic facilities that Sauber operations posses, but to what effect in this field of competition are they applied ?
Tentatively it does look that McL have pulled themselves into a valid direction in car concept, that baseline that by its existence and observations in day to day performance will compound the development effects as these next races progress.