- Login or Register
No account yet? Sign up
More teams have hit trouble in the final day of pre-season testing at Barcelona. At a moment when one would expect reliability issues to be nearly ironed out, the lack of running for some teams was surprising.
Dat Honda sound...Juzh wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 20:45Lots of cars having moments in turn 1/2, that includes the ferrari at 4:41. Though from what I've seen on the official stream it did look by far the most planted of the cars running at that time (no red bull though).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsQWSiZbOE
Why wouldn't they be at racing speed on track? Why does it have to be one thing or the other? Why wouldn't they get data by driving as fast as possible (with detuned engine etc of course though) ?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:56Session 1 of day 1 of testing - times aren't important, reliable and consistent data is. You don't go out to set fastest laps from lap one, you go out to check systems and get some data. Fast times come later. The only reason for setting fast times is to attract attention and thus, hopefully, sponsorship.
This is pre-season testing, not race preparation for a specific trackBrenton wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 21:51Why wouldn't they be at racing speed on track? Why does it have to be one thing or the other? Why wouldn't they get data by driving as fast as possible (with detuned engine etc of course though) ?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:56Session 1 of day 1 of testing - times aren't important, reliable and consistent data is. You don't go out to set fastest laps from lap one, you go out to check systems and get some data. Fast times come later. The only reason for setting fast times is to attract attention and thus, hopefully, sponsorship.
You generally can't get usable data unless you drive close to the limit. Depending on what data is important. They're going to be on track for multiple reasons, not just to test things that don't need a fast pace to get accurate data.
It's usual to drive to a set lap time. The engineers decide on that lap time based on what they're testing for. For example, set speeds used to assess aero loading.Brenton wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 21:51Why wouldn't they be at racing speed on track? Why does it have to be one thing or the other? Why wouldn't they get data by driving as fast as possible (with detuned engine etc of course though) ?Just_a_fan wrote: ↑26 Feb 2018, 11:56Session 1 of day 1 of testing - times aren't important, reliable and consistent data is. You don't go out to set fastest laps from lap one, you go out to check systems and get some data. Fast times come later. The only reason for setting fast times is to attract attention and thus, hopefully, sponsorship.
You generally can't get usable data unless you drive close to the limit. Depending on what data is important. They're going to be on track for multiple reasons, not just to test things that don't need a fast pace to get accurate data.
