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@PLAYLIFE = lucky man! Here are the answers:
1. How well does simulation correlate with real world testing (out of a score of 5)? What elements of the GP3 cars (tyres, chassis, aero, engine, etc) are the most difficult to simulate?
In Dynamic way, it seems very good, but the sims for a drivers is always a sim and doesn´t give same feeling than a real car and needs to adapt his driving to the new situation, this, give us a difference behaviour on the real car comparing with sim.
Worst part and more difficult is aero part and tyres. Mechanical part are “simple” but aero is difficult because the data that car builder gives you is not so accurate and needs to imagine some to made it accurate or spend money in a wind tunnel that is no allowed for the championship and needs a lot of money to get a good data. In tyres also the same, tyre builder gives you some data but not all, and you don´t have new tyres to test because Pirelli brings with him all tyres… so this two parts are the biggest difficult to translate them to the sim.
2. Do GP3 teams undertake tyre prediction modelling to attempt to learn the tyre characteristics (degradation, heat cycles, other parameters)?
We try to do it, but for the leak of tyre data is very difficult.
3. What are the top 3 car setup parameters that have the most influence on lap-time (e.g., suspensions stiffness, wing angle, camber, etc.)?
Depend of track needs to try to adapt the car to the track. Is not the same in Monza than Barcelona need to adapt the mechanical grip and aero grip…
4. How often do you run asymmetric setups (left to right) and are they substantial or only subtle?
Normally no, we don´t see too much differences.
5. And finally, who is the best GP3 driver you have seen in your time in the sport?!
Difficult…. very difficult… in my personal opinion, Leclerc is a very good talented young driver, Palou is very completed and about professional ones the most completed ones are Hamilton and Alonso. But this is my personal opinion, for sure for another people are another drivers.
Well I would add despite we try to have more info about the "car setup parameters that have the most influence", eheheehh no way to have more info than what we had for the development! And the aero stuff lets me remember the several nights that Edwin spent on it to perform a great result!
Today Mr.D is testing with MoTeC the pack I sent with data captured running few laps at Silverstone and a MoTeC workspace made by PLAYLIFE, to see if he needs some change to read the data he needs... As soon as everything will be okay, I'll post the procedure to be followed by some volunteer.
Thank you
1. How well does simulation correlate with real world testing (out of a score of 5)? What elements of the GP3 cars (tyres, chassis, aero, engine, etc) are the most difficult to simulate?
In Dynamic way, it seems very good, but the sims for a drivers is always a sim and doesn´t give same feeling than a real car and needs to adapt his driving to the new situation, this, give us a difference behaviour on the real car comparing with sim.
Worst part and more difficult is aero part and tyres. Mechanical part are “simple” but aero is difficult because the data that car builder gives you is not so accurate and needs to imagine some to made it accurate or spend money in a wind tunnel that is no allowed for the championship and needs a lot of money to get a good data. In tyres also the same, tyre builder gives you some data but not all, and you don´t have new tyres to test because Pirelli brings with him all tyres… so this two parts are the biggest difficult to translate them to the sim.
2. Do GP3 teams undertake tyre prediction modelling to attempt to learn the tyre characteristics (degradation, heat cycles, other parameters)?
We try to do it, but for the leak of tyre data is very difficult.
3. What are the top 3 car setup parameters that have the most influence on lap-time (e.g., suspensions stiffness, wing angle, camber, etc.)?
Depend of track needs to try to adapt the car to the track. Is not the same in Monza than Barcelona need to adapt the mechanical grip and aero grip…
4. How often do you run asymmetric setups (left to right) and are they substantial or only subtle?
Normally no, we don´t see too much differences.
5. And finally, who is the best GP3 driver you have seen in your time in the sport?!
Difficult…. very difficult… in my personal opinion, Leclerc is a very good talented young driver, Palou is very completed and about professional ones the most completed ones are Hamilton and Alonso. But this is my personal opinion, for sure for another people are another drivers.
Well I would add despite we try to have more info about the "car setup parameters that have the most influence", eheheehh no way to have more info than what we had for the development! And the aero stuff lets me remember the several nights that Edwin spent on it to perform a great result!
Today Mr.D is testing with MoTeC the pack I sent with data captured running few laps at Silverstone and a MoTeC workspace made by PLAYLIFE, to see if he needs some change to read the data he needs... As soon as everything will be okay, I'll post the procedure to be followed by some volunteer.
Thank you
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