Imagine you’re the race engineer for <insert your favorite driver name> and your aerodynamics department have just spent 3 months working on a new upgrade, your driver runs it and says: “it’s completely undrivable, there is too much understeer in…
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Wind and gradient at the Belgium GP
The F1 teams have returned to work after a much needed mid season break, so it is with great anticipation that we watch to see how the championship battle will unfold. With only 14 points separating Vettel and Hamilton even…
Dynamic Simulation
We’ve been pretty quiet on the blogging front recently, primarily because life has been anything but quiet serving our platform clients. The clients themselves have also been pretty busy and we were really pleased to see the usage stats tick…
2017 Aero Regulations meet 2014 Powertrain Regulations
Back in 2013 power deployment in F1 was a big deal. The new powertrains due to appear in 2014 required harvesting electrical energy from a turbo and under braking, then working out exactly where that energy should be fed back…
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Aerodynamic Upgrades Facilitated: Isochronal Ratio
It is a mixed blessing when you hand a child an iPad on a long car journey. On one hand, you know that they will be so captivated by the slickness of the technology that you can guarantee a hassle-free…
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Fuel Saving: There are no rules!
We’ve had a number of excellent client meetings in the last few weeks, but one question has come up sufficiently often that it now qualifies as a Frequently Asked Question, and deserves a quick blog post to answer it. We’re…
Getting Started 3: matching telemetry
In parts 1 and 2 of our Getting Started series we covered how to sign-in to the platform, run a sweep of simulations, create a new car, and populate the car with the parameters of your own car. In this…
Getting Started 2: make it your car
In the first instalment of this series we went through signing-in to the platform and running a quick car mass sweep for Barcelona with the default car. In this second instalment we will create a new car with our own…
Getting Started 1: sign-in, run a study
Since we revolutionised racing car simulation with the Canopy Platform, we’ve understandably had a lot of questions about how it works and how teams can use it whilst keeping all of their data secure. In this series of articles I’m…
Race Preparation – Starting from Zero
These days simulation tools have a key role to play in almost all aspects of the operations of high-end racing teams. Throughout the life-cycle of a car, from concept design to race-weekend operations, the simulation tools used by the racing…