FPR & Radar Guns???

[dsg]

Originally Posted by Woolley

Yep, a noted F1 designer explained all this to me last year - they're all doing it, so nothing dodgy. I wouldn't claim to understand how it works, but you can get detailed power figures, comparative downforce, gear ratios - virtually the whole technical figures for a car. It's combined with tv pictures, so they measure the circuits in detail and plot camera angles. Would be more surprised if there's any professional level championship where this isn't being done.

I understand this is also how other teams determined some of the cars were running flexible wings.

[volvolean]

why would anyone care what anyone else is doing?

with staffs of 50 people or more, arent there enough geniuses in the group to work it out for themselves?

copying is just so japanese

how about just doing your own thing and not worrying about anyone else?

[Chucky]

Originally Posted by volvolean

copying is just so japanese

how about just doing your own thing and not worrying about anyone else?

Most development in that category has been about copying. It's always been the same where their is a few who do real development and the many who wait for it to appear so they can copy it with varying degrees of success or failure.

[dsg]

Originally Posted by volvolean

why would anyone care what anyone else is doing?

with staffs of 50 people or more, arent there enough geniuses in the group to work it out for themselves?

copying is just so japanese

how about just doing your own thing and not worrying about anyone else?

Domo arigato. It’s called research and development. Every new idea is in actuality a development of existing principles or ideas and the geniuses have to start somewhere.

Don't get jealous of the Japanese just because they usually have good research & development structures within their companies.