Yep (@MrGapes as well) being that far away is a bit of a handicap. Key also elaborated on the other differences back in 2019 too.djos wrote: ↑29 Jul 2022, 03:56Lando mentioned the biggest issue they've found is:MrGapes wrote: ↑29 Jul 2022, 03:38I think we are all waiting impatiently, the team have been quite adamant of the infrastructure deficit and its disadvantages.runningmanz wrote: ↑28 Jul 2022, 16:33
Thanks yeah can't wait to see it up and running, it seems to be taking forever but pardon the pun at least there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel!![]()
I am curious, obviously having a inhouse wind tunnel improves accessibility and efficiency etc. but what are the technological disadvantages of the cologne tunnel to what the team are constructing now?
https://www.racefans.net/2021/05/23/mcl ... ning-them/“I guess having our own wind tunnel is one of the biggest things,” he continued, adding, it would be much easier for “the guys and girls who travel all the way to [Toyota’s facility in] Germany every time and go to the wind tunnel, spend time in isolation, there for three weeks, come back and spend time in isolation again and so on. We lose a lot of time compared to other teams who are able to do it a lot quicker.”
"Modern F1 wind tunnels, in particular, harness new technology that enhances what teams can achieve when it comes to modelling aerodynamics and airflow – using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). CFD has its limitations, in terms of accuracy and efficiency, which is why a new wind tunnel is essential, as Key goes on to explain.
“CFD and wind tunnels complement each other very well, particularly in motor racing when you’ve got a very chaotic situation surrounding our very transient thing,” he said.
“The car’s moving around all over the place, it’s got rotating tyres and an airstream, there’s a lot of complexity there. So CFD does an increasingly great job of understanding how those flows are working and demonstrating to us as engineers what’s going on. But they can’t do that live in multiple conditions in the space of 10 minutes – and a wind tunnel can with this molecular resolution.
“So they complement each other and, although CFD will get there eventually, beginning to recreate exactly what a tunnel can do is still some way off. I guess we’re looking at new generations of technology and techniques coming now that helps facilitate new wind tunnels being built.”"
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/arti ... 0a2GN.html
Now that we are partnered with Google why can't we start working towards leveraging their world leading Quantum computing at some stage in the future. Insane computing power.

https://medium.com/predict/googles-quan ... df56747f7f
https://quantumai.google/