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Old 7 Dec 2018, 20:55 (Ref:3868637)   #3351
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So basically the more sophisticated the CFD tools you are using the more accurate you can expect the results to be.

The minnows will be wasting their time on their CFD analysis while the rich and entitled teams will be developing at a rapid rate.

Not good!
I think you are generally right, but for the wrong reason.

I think the software and hardware is probably nearly commodity at this point. It is about how you use it. So CFD time itself is probably not costly (in the big picture). What the top teams will continue to be able to do is to hire the best people who are good at getting usable results.

But... in the end, it also doesn't mean small teams can't figure it out. Which is why I think overall this is a good thing. It at least gives the smaller teams more of an opportunity to figure things out.

I am also in no way saying small teams are populated by idiots. Its more about the good ones are more likely to eventually get poached by the bigger teams. For example... Adrian Newey didn't start at the top. He followed the money and/or teams that could allow him to put cars on the top of the podium. But he did help those he worked for on his upward climb.

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It's also down to how good the initial CAD model of the car is, which is the starting point for a CFD simulation.
I am not an expert on this, but I think it is less about the 3D car model (those are probably well defined), but the "model" of the interaction of the car with everything else. Static is easy (stable car going straight in clean air) Dynamic conditions are hard. Stuff like following other cars and being in turbulent flow or the dynamics of your own car as is moves around on the track.

Watch slow motion video of cars and you see things like suspension movement, tire vibration, or even small fluttering of various body parts such as the wings or even engine covers (I know, there is no "movable aero"... yeah right!). You know this stuff likely matters. So you put all of that into a computer model. Or if the list of variables is infinite (you can't model everything, or at least it is hard to do so), then how to you figure out which ones have the largest impact and which you ignore.

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Does anyone know if the software used for CAD and CFD is off the shelf or bespoke?
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Does anyone know if the software used for CAD and CFD is off the shelf or bespoke?
You are not asking me. And I want to hear the thoughts from others. But I suspect the answer is "both". There are inexpensive (or open source) solutions, but also serious solutions to are used for multiple purposes/industries (aerospace, etc.) and not just for "air" but other fluids (like pump design). Anyhow, those should be viewed more like Microsoft Word or Excel. In that they are tools or a framework for whatever you create. I expect each team has plenty of bespoke "stuff" that ties into off the shelf CFD frameworks/tooling. I doubt anyone is implementing a fully bespoke solution given they would be replicating features already available (cheaper) in off the shelf solutions. But that also means that given these are "generic" there is no "F1 aero design" software that you can just buy.

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So basically the more sophisticated the CFD tools you are using the more accurate you can expect the results to be.

The minnows will be wasting their time on their CFD analysis while the rich and entitled teams will be developing at a rapid rate.

Not good!
But no different to using wind tunnels 24/7. The best teams at doing whatever it takes to win will always be the best and given the right rule set that might not be the wealthiest team as has been seen in the past on the odd occasion.
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But no different to using wind tunnels 24/7. The best teams at doing whatever it takes to win will always be the best and given the right rule set that might not be the wealthiest team as has been seen in the past on the odd occasion.
Aren't teams given limited run time, for both CFD and wind tunnel testing?
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Aren't teams given limited run time, for both CFD and wind tunnel testing?
They were.

Looks like the FIA has either found something that they don't want to have found regarding CFD, or they simply cannot police the usage.

Guess Richard's supposition that they are using of the shelf CFD programs, how do you stop the use of the tools by engineers at home, in other facilities etc.?
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Isn’t the CFD useage change related to research for the new regs?
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Isn’t the CFD useage change related to research for the new regs?
That's what they claimed Adam, but no matter how you look at it its a leg up for the members of the F1 Strategy Group and Mercedes in particular who have a huge CFD operation based in India.

Who else has a specific branch of a multi-national company dedicated to CFD?
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Ah, Mercedes, I see your issue. It’s dedicated to Research, but includes CFD. I suspect the F1 CFD is done in Brackley. Whatever the F1 team will have access to enough CFD you’re right. I’d worry about creep.

I only mentioned it as I hadn’t seen what was said about why it had been opened up in the thread.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14...eaked-for-2019
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Another adjustment to the sporting regulations confirmed at Wednesday's World Motor Sport Council meeting is to allow unrestricted CFD simulations to be carried out for the development of cars in accordance with the 2021 regulations.

This practice was carried out previously when teams were working to future regulations, and reflects the fact that they will be providing feedback that will help F1 and the FIA shape the 2021 rules.
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Wolff on record that 2019 aero changes won't change an awful lot.

https://www.crash.net/f1/news/911863...wful-lot-wolff

“The aim was to take away some of the aero and direct the airflow over the top of the car but they fight 2000 aerodynamicists in all the teams and I think we have found solutions to get the air around the car, so it’s not going to change an awful lot,” Wolff added.
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https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/o...ding-arms-race

Liberty's latest agenda:

Preventing a manufacturer's arms race.
Limiting the cost of engines - good.
Breaking the Ferrari Haas partnership at Mercedes behest - bad.

"Mercedes has been as anxious to defend against Ferrari gaining an advantage from the arrangement as the independent teams have been to prevent Haas getting one up on them.
Haas’s punching-above-its-weight performance last season has probably brought this to a head."
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Liberty's latest agenda:

Preventing a manufacturer's arms race.
Limiting the cost of engines - good.
Breaking the Ferrari Haas partnership at Mercedes behest - bad.

"Mercedes has been as anxious to defend against Ferrari gaining an advantage from the arrangement as the independent teams have been to prevent Haas getting one up on them.
Haas’s punching-above-its-weight performance last season has probably brought this to a head."
I would say a missing part of your commentary is that the article talks about cost caps as part of this. I think that if cost caps is a part of their strategy then trying to reign in something like the Ferrari/Haas relationship may be involved. I can think of two related reasons...

1. If you put cost caps on teams, then part of this will be associated rules to try to prevent funding of development that happens outside of cost caps. One way to do this is to have two teams that are operating with roughly the same technical solution. So you would get 2x the budget to develop what is "roughly" the same car.

2. To potentially get the large teams to agree to cost caps, you have to close the obvious loop holes that others may already be exploiting. So Ferrari + Haas and maybe even more so in the near future RBR + Toro Rosso.

Depending upon ownership, the slave teams may have little or no expectation to "perform" against the master team. But rather they act as sort of a on-track test team. Very much like TR was during 2018 for RBR. Granted, the master team doesn't want the slave team to trundle around at the rear, they want the concepts to do well and score points off the "second tier" teams.

Related to this is the entire "customer car" idea which at it's core (I think) is to effectively abolish the "Appendix 6 Listed Parts" from the Sporting Regulations that defines the items that are exclusive to a given team. Currently that is...

* Survival cell
* Front impact structure
* Roll structure
* Most of the bodywork

For the most part, that means the chassis (with bodywork) minus suspension, power-train and misc other bits.

So for the current Ferrari/Haas scenario they are using the same suspension and this works as it is not on the list above. Mercedes wants to expand that list to include more items. I assume that includes at least the suspension.

This goes backwards from the idea of a customer car.

Maybe an alternate solution is to create an additional category of items. This category would say that a team can create their own, or use a third party solution, but if more than one team uses the solution the IP owner can't restrict access to the parts. So in this scenario, if Ferrari decides to provide it's suspension to Haas, it has to make it available to other teams. There would have to be language around reasonable costs, etc.

Maybe that approach would be too complex. To be honest, what Mercedes proposes is a simple solution, but it does move further away from allowing customer cars. What needs to be found is a way to incentivize teams to rely upon off the shelf components for the basis stuff (provided by the larger community of third party providers) vs. develop and manufacture bespoke equivalents in-house. Those should be open to purchase by anyone and live outside of the cost caps.

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to be honest, im of a mind to think that if Merc dont like it im in favour of it.

but seriously i would like to see more cooperation between a manufacturer and their customer?

Ferrari should help Sauber and Haas more, RBR should help STR, Renault and Mclaren...actually these two well established and financed teams could really change the entire game if they could somehow came up with 4 world beating cars at the same time.

and frankly Merc should be doing more with Williams and FI/RP.

have seen the version of F1 where its a manu vs manu arms race, cost spiraling, and privateers failing to keep up...maybe its time to try another way. lets see what happens when they try cooperation instead of divide and conquer.
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to be honest, im of a mind to think that if Merc dont like it im in favour of it.

but seriously i would like to see more cooperation between a manufacturer and their customer?

Ferrari should help Sauber and Haas more, RBR should help STR, Renault and Mclaren...actually these two well established and financed teams could really change the entire game if they could somehow came up with 4 world beating cars at the same time.

and frankly Merc should be doing more with Williams and FI/RP.

have seen the version of F1 where its a manu vs manu arms race, cost spiraling, and privateers failing to keep up...maybe its time to try another way. lets see what happens when they try cooperation instead of divide and conquer.
I hear what your saying, but what happens when "cooperation" really is "cooption" (i.e. assimilation) under the covers. When smaller teams effectively become dependent upon and subservient to the larger teams? Do we EVER think we will see a team use components from a larger team and use them better than the larger team and challenging them? Does this not just ensure that the smaller teams are grid fillers in a second tier? Providing the appearance of real competition so as to justify the existence of the larger teams and the series a whole?

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I hear what your saying, but what happens when "cooperation" really is "cooption" (i.e. assimilation) under the covers. When smaller teams effectively become dependent upon and subservient to the larger teams? Do we EVER think we will see a team use components from a larger team and use them better than the larger team and challenging them? Does this not just ensure that the smaller teams are grid fillers in a second tier? Providing the appearance of real competition so as to justify the existence of the larger teams and the series a whole?

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Seems to be pretty much what we have with the satellite teams relying on engine supplies, when do you expect a satellite team to beat the manufacturer?

The only thing that this would seem to change would be to force Mercedes closer to the teams they supply in order to cover off the Ferrari threat.

P.S. Richard, I just ignored the cost cap commentary as I believe it to be unrealistic and unenforceable fantasy!

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agree with wnut..this is pretty much what we have now.

also no post from me would be complete without me saying the probelm isnt supply deals but really about relative budget sizes so here goes!

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if by larger team you mean a manufacturer team then yes we have seen this happen most recently with RBR and their customer Renault engine deal....although i wouldn't say they cooperated with each other!

RBR's advantage was partially ingenuity but beyond that they had lots and lots of money and when they were winning titles they were outspending their supplier as well as the rest of their competition.

obviously with me, the main differentiator is budget size so yes, i think a customer team with a sufficient budget can beat its suppler.

failing that though, why not make things easier for the 2nd tier?

allowing them to spend less money and stay financially healthy while they fill out positions 4-10 on the table seems like a good start particularity when there is no viable plan to control budgets.
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also no post from me would be complete without me saying the probelm isnt supply deals but really about relative budget sizes so here goes!
So... In the end, I agree that relative budget sizes is the problem and fiddling with everything else is screwing around and organizing the deck chairs.

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if by larger team you mean a manufacturer team then yes we have seen this happen most recently with RBR and their customer Renault engine deal....although i wouldn't say they cooperated with each other!
I will say that as Mercedes switched from just an engine supplier to full on team they were in the same boat as well. But it a temporary special case that is never likely to last. Nobody beats Mercedes when using Mercedes power now and I expect the same will hold true eventually for Renault (if they can keep their act together). Note... regardless of how it happened... RBR can no longer beat Renault using Renault power.

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obviously with me, the main differentiator is budget size so yes, i think a customer team with a sufficient budget can beat its suppler.
Of which that scenario is rapidly becoming a unicorn. Who will have funding to match a mature Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault? RBR? They have effectively absorbed Honda as even they know superior funding and the best people can't clear that hurdle in the long run.

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failing that though, why not make things easier for the 2nd tier?

allowing them to spend less money and stay financially healthy while they fill out positions 4-10 on the table seems like a good start particularity when there is no viable plan to control budgets.
All just a delaying tactic. I can't argue with the need for it, but it clearly is grasping at straws to just "survive". I don't think it's anything to celebrate. And moving more in that direction (increasing the dependency) is just a sad commentary of where we are today and the prospective future.

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P.S. Richard, I just ignored the cost cap commentary as I believe it to be unrealistic and unenforceable fantasy!
Ask the question... why does everyone fight so hard to not do it? And who would fight the hardest? If it actually worked who would be the winners and who the looser.

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Of which that scenario is rapidly becoming a unicorn. Who will have funding to match a mature Mercedes, Ferrari, Renault? RBR? They have effectively absorbed Honda as even they know superior funding and the best people can't clear that hurdle in the long run.
in fairness its just two teams.

who can hope to match the funding of Merc and Ferrari and if Ferrari lose their special payments then arguably its just Merc no?

will have to see if RBR-Honda are up to spend as much as Merc and Ferrari.

Renault, while spending more year on year, dont seem as keen to hit Merc's budget.

anyways, if we genuinely had 4 teams capable of winning a title...rather if we had 4 teams at the top with similar budgets, we (well myself anyways) would probably not care as much about budgets or the financial health of the smaller teams. there would be more than enough competition at the sharp end.

but its not that so yeah they need to worry about creating the illusion of competition and you cant do that when all but 6 cars are getting lapped by the first round of pit stops. an exaggeration of course but not far from the truth given how many cars fail to finish a race on the lead lap.

so indeed, how can one be expected to compete against mature teams that have years if not decades of making capital improvements to their facilities and the annual budget to make use of those facilities?

the fact that a well funded independent (outside of the RBs of course) are becoming unicorns surely just highlights the need for more favorable commercial deals..whether that be prize money, price caps on engines, greater use of parts designed by a patron team. it certainly doesnt detract from the idea.

to each their own of course but i dont think it cheapens the sport at all.

Haas' and Sauber's success this year, FI over the last few years...for me these have been the highlights of recent seasons and all of it aided by more favorable supply deals from a 'master' team.

these have arguably been F1's most successful story lines. encouraging this is not grasping at straws imo.

plus its better for the drivers in those small teams!
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Haas' and Sauber's success this year, FI over the last few years...for me these have been the highlights of recent seasons and all of it aided by more favorable supply deals from a 'master' team.
I still think it's mostly a feel good thing. I personally think something special is going on at FI and wish I really understood what. Given the drama at the team... punching way above their weight. But otherwise it still is a master slave scenario that we are expanding here and it's teams like Williams that are trying to go at it alone, but finding they can't make it work. So they are likely to get in line with the new world order as well.

As to Mercedes opposition, maybe I think Mercedes realizes that they may eventually have to outright buy a secondary team if things continue down this path. Buying to ensure they can pull the strings correctly and are trying to avoid having to do that. Probably as their budget is large enough as it is, let alone having another large mouth to feed.

I apologize as this all seems very "doom and gloom" from me. I just think there is more smoke and mirrors going on than people realize. I do find ways to be excited about F1. I can join in on the self delusion and enjoy like most fans. There remains bits and pieces that truly are authentic.

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I think it’s always helped that Ferrari, Merc and Renault are happy to supply other teams, so it helps out there situation enormously
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I still think it's mostly a feel good thing. I personally think something special is going on at FI and wish I really understood what. Given the drama at the team... punching way above their weight. But otherwise it still is a master slave scenario that we are expanding here and it's teams like Williams that are trying to go at it alone, but finding they can't make it work. So they are likely to get in line with the new world order as well.
always comes back to Williams... i lament their decline as well but surely their decline is not primarily the result of FI taking more help form Merc or Haas from Ferrari.

i do think they should have accepted more from Merc as they always could have gone back to building their own gearbox down the road...i guess we will see where they are next year (cant come soon enough right?)

for the record i do hope that they do find a way back and if its on their own terms then so much the better but given how many times they have put their hands into a drivers pocket im not so sure they can say that they go at this thing alone.

anyways didnt think your posts were doom and gloom...as per usual i thought they were very much on point!
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Ask the question... why does everyone fight so hard to not do it? And who would fight the hardest? If it actually worked who would be the winners and who the looser.

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I just can't see a manufacturer agreeing to have auditors paw through their accounts at the behest of the marketing department complying with a Liberty edict. There would also be so many loopholes that the whole exercise would be a pointless waste of time.
Far easier to restrict the technical aspects of F1, control tyres, control ECUs, limitations of allowed alloys etc.
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in fairness its just two teams.

who can hope to match the funding of Merc and Ferrari and if Ferrari lose their special payments then arguably its just Merc no?

will have to see if RBR-Honda are up to spend as much as Merc and Ferrari.

Renault, while spending more year on year, dont seem as keen to hit Merc's budget.

anyways, if we genuinely had 4 teams capable of winning a title...rather if we had 4 teams at the top with similar budgets, we (well myself anyways) would probably not care as much about budgets or the financial health of the smaller teams. there would be more than enough competition at the sharp end.

but its not that so yeah they need to worry about creating the illusion of competition and you cant do that when all but 6 cars are getting lapped by the first round of pit stops. an exaggeration of course but not far from the truth given how many cars fail to finish a race on the lead lap.

so indeed, how can one be expected to compete against mature teams that have years if not decades of making capital improvements to their facilities and the annual budget to make use of those facilities?

the fact that a well funded independent (outside of the RBs of course) are becoming unicorns surely just highlights the need for more favorable commercial deals..whether that be prize money, price caps on engines, greater use of parts designed by a patron team. it certainly doesnt detract from the idea.

to each their own of course but i dont think it cheapens the sport at all.

Haas' and Sauber's success this year, FI over the last few years...for me these have been the highlights of recent seasons and all of it aided by more favorable supply deals from a 'master' team.

these have arguably been F1's most successful story lines. encouraging this is not grasping at straws imo.

plus its better for the drivers in those small teams!
I agree with your post, the only point I would make is that Merc have won 75% of the races in the hybrid era. Lewis has won 50.

I believe Merc are just sandbagging and riding a massive technological advantage, we saw their advantage in the 2017 Brazilian GP where Brundle was moved to say:

Lewis Hamilton's new engine and maximum attack pace at least gave Ferrari, Renault and Honda a clue as to how much power and efficiency they need to find this winter. And I doubt the GPS and sound analysis will make for happy reading, unless you're in Brixworth.

https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/24...rack-in-brazil

I really don't think anything has changed, there is literally one car in the field driven by one driver, Lewis, capable of winning!

Merc have already been allowed to outspend everybody where it counts and will have an unfair advantage for as long as the current engine formula remains.

Nailed by you above:

to be honest, im of a mind to think that if Merc dont like it im in favour of it. Chillibowl
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