by Rowland Jowett As a former senior simulator test engineer I have spent many a day preparing for the next race event with F1 champions, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button, in the driver-in-loop (DiL) simulator. I have become…
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Overtaking Trends: The case for 2000bhp F1 cars
Overtaking Trends: The case for 2000bhp F1 cars Written by Rowland Jowett It would be convenient to make sweeping generalisations when it comes to car performance, for example, perhaps the short braking zones of F1 cars make them difficult to…
Overtaking Fundamentals: Action packed 2022 F1 season?
Overtaking Fundamentals: Action packed 2022 F1 season? Written by Rowland Jowett Perhaps the most exciting aspect of an F1 race is the tension surrounding an overtake. Over the years, F1 regulations have been shaped by the governing body and teams…
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The Heart of F1
The Heart of F1 Written by Alex McCormick Racing or Playing Ping Pong? In this series of articles, we’re exploring what it is that sets one racing series apart from the others. Every racing series, formula, or championship has its…
Canopy Newsletter 10 – Feb 2019
We’ve been working hard on a new way to store and organise your simulation results, configs (cars, tracks, weather), telemetry and DiL data. The beta edition of Worksheets is now available. Worksheets There is no plan to replace the Staging…
Canopy Newsletter 9 – Oct 2018
It’s been a while since we’ve been in touch, so it’s about time we shared some of our exciting new developments. Secondary Lap Sensitivities A new simulation type is available on your account; Dynamic Lap (SLS). This enables computation of…
Canopy Newsletter 8 – May 2018
An update on some new features that have been included in Canopy. Channel Inference A new simulation type is available. Working backwards from telemetry data, this simulation uses the vehicle model to estimate the value for channels which were not…
Canopy Newsletter 7 – Feb 2018
An update on some new features that have been included in Canopy. Tyre Wear Optimisation To help with tyre strategy during the race it is now possible to run a sweep limiting tyre wear energy by enabling ETyreWearLimit. The example…
Canopy Newsletter 6 – Dec 2017
An update on some new features that have been included in Canopy. Dynamic Multi-Lap has arrived! We can now do full stint energy and powertrain temperature optimisation. It is computationally demanding and requires the use of a heavy compute pool, (more…
Canopy Newsletter 3 – June 2017
An update on some new features that have been included in Canopy. Telemetry Import The telemetry CSV import can now read any channel name and convert units which should save time renaming channels. The only exception is “sLap” and “tLap”…