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Discussions to ban F1 wind tunnels
A 2022-spec F1 design during wind tunnel testing Formula 1 could outlaw the use of wind tunnels in the coming seasons as it looks to further reduce costs. Discussions among teams have centred on banning wind tunnels from 2030 in favour of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Teams are already limited in terms of the time they’re allowed to spend in the wind tunnel, where they’re restricted to 60 percent scale models. But while once a fundamental part of car development, these days they comprise just one aspect and are used as much for validation as development. Workflows now include CFD, wind tunnel time, testing in the simulator, and real-world testing. The correlation between those...
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