Quattro team su undici premono per tornare ai test in pista durante l'anno
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Jonathan Neale (McLaren): “I would be really surprised if a team could do a day’s track testing for much less than between £70,000-£100,000 in Europe. By the time you’ve got the cars, flights and all the people it must be in that order.†That’s serious cash but if you spent $20m on a simulator, that’s a lot of testing you could have performed since 2009… in fact, that’s a couple hundred days of testing that could have been accomplished but that doesn’t take into account the parts and everything ancillary to the process.
Can driver-in-the-loop simulation replace real testing? I quote Williams driver Susie Wolff after she drove the real car in testing: “Driving the F1 car meant I came back into the sim with a whole new level of understanding. If you are in the sim trying to give feedback on a car you’ve never driven before, it’s not the same level of feedback. It’s not the same as being on the race track – nothing is.â€