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Old 23 Feb 2018, 04:06 (Ref:3803309)   #90
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Originally Posted by GTRMagic View Post
Didn’t Mr Wirth famously claim if a designer used CFD they didn’t need real world testing? Wonder how VirginF1 is going these days... or the Acura/Honda ARX05... or the Simtek...
Was it Wirth who also claimed with CFD he had no need for wind tunnel testing.
I know he was also responsible for the design work (as you mentioned) on the Virgin F1 car which ended up having a fuel tank too small to fuel the car to last a race. (with no refuelling allowed)
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