Young Drivers Test: Abu Dhabi - 15th to 17th Nov 2011

[intelligentF1]

Recalibration? So they think they may have got it wrong?

Or calibration? Which is understandable...

Of course the calibration is wrong. The question is how wrong, and how to make it less wrong. When you are looking for fractions of a percent in performance, the signal-to-noise ratio is very low, so there is a continuous process of recalibration. Mercedes are certainly working on improving the calibration of the aero/vehicle dynamics interaction - it's part of a job they recently advertised.

[ESPImperium]

Another site that will be going live timiung will be F1Today, whitch ill be following via Google Translate, also the trusted web site for my testing data from 2010 onward.

There is usually a Greek F1 site that does the data as well, so this way we can analise long runs. And with the GP just last weekend, we have the race times and FP2 times to analise against the long runs of the younbg driver tests.

[cbbcisace]

HRTF1TEAMFANS (@hispaniaf1fans)
11/14/11 6:07 PM
Dani Clos y Nathanaël Berthon probaran con HRT en los test jovenes pilotos de Abu Dabi

[pob]

The teams will have spent most of today building up their test chassis, or in the case of a couple of teams, pulling the test tub from the third pit lane at Yas to the F1 pit as those are the chassis that have active suspension on them

I didn't think active suspension was allowed?

Personally im looking forward to seeing the new Pirelli tyre profiles the most with the 2012 exhausts.

I don't think the 8 extra sets the teams have for the young driver test have 2012 profiles.

[beelsebob]

The teams will have spent most of today building up their test chassis, or in the case of a couple of teams, pulling the test tub from the third pit lane at Yas to the F1 pit as those are the chassis that have active suspension on them

I didn't think active suspension was allowed?

Not during a championship event, no – during a test though, it's bloody useful, it allows them to quickly test all kinds of ideas for how to set the cars up.

Personally im looking forward to seeing the new Pirelli tyre profiles the most with the 2012 exhausts.

I don't think the 8 extra sets the teams have for the young driver test have 2012 profiles.

Paul Hemberly was saying that they were planning on bringing the new compounds along to the young driver test.

[Richard]

Is that active in the context of being able to adjust on track during a session? So they could do lap 1 on setting 'a' then lap 2 on setting 'b' etc.? I guess the settings are also using some sort evolutionary algorithm, a track side computer will identify the next iteration based on the data from the previous iterations?

[ESPImperium]

Pretty much id say that is it. Its the same way yhey used active suspension on the Williams FW14B i belive.

[beelsebob]

Pretty much id say that is it. Its the same way yhey used active suspension on the Williams FW14B i belive.

Actually, I believe the FW14B was much more advanced, it used the time into the lap, and acceleration sensors to determine where in the lap it was, and to adjust the suspension specifically for the corner coming up.

[FW17]

Are there any images of recent test cars with anything like an active suspension? I doubt it.
Speculation that some teams were running magnetorheological damper (which is nothing like an active suspension) years back was discussed here viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6413

[raymondu999]

Pretty much id say that is it. Its the same way yhey used active suspension on the Williams FW14B i belive.

Actually, I believe the FW14B was much more advanced, it used the time into the lap, and acceleration sensors to determine where in the lap it was, and to adjust the suspension specifically for the corner coming up.

Yup. They would use rear axle rotation speed to figure out distance travelled, and from that you knew where you were on the lap. Then the suspension would do different things corner to corner. Or at least that's what Geoff Willis said in Spa FP

[pob]

Does anyone have a link for timing info?

[Hemsy]

What time does the test start? Also do we have any pics yet?

[pob]

It's already underway, started at 5am GMT.
Chilton & Cecotto:

Dani Clos:

Quaife-Hobbs

Bottas:

Latest times via twitter: 1 Bird, 1:46.081; 2 Gonzalez, 1:46.244; 3 Bottas, 1:47.777; 4 Chilton, 1:48.040; 5 Coletti, 1:49.331; 6 Clos, 1:49.663

[Hemsy]

I'm especially keen on seeing Merc's periscope exhausts. Will be interesting to see what "their interpretation" is.

[Forza]

Bottas:

Williams is testing basic solution of top exit exhaust according to this picture.

Here is picture of RB front wing testing in ABD.