• AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol
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    1 year ago

    This has confused me before, is there only one wind tunnel or something? Why on earth is testing time restricted? Can they not build more tunnels? Is there a safety reason it’d be bad to test the aerodynamics of the car a lot?

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      1 year ago

      It’s for making the playing field a bit more level: the fastest cars get less testing time so they cannot improve as much as the slower cars that get more wind tunnel time. But this implies that you have a budget and personnel for this

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        1 year ago

        Or actual ambition. Gene Haas is perfectly fine watching cars drive his logo around the track while the value of an F1 team slot goes up