Bojan Vrbnjak
When he goes to the royal class of motorsport for the topic of saving, then there are no taboos. Everything is put on the table. Among other things, it is being discussed whether or not to fly 2030 v Formulas 1 prohibit use wind tunnels.
The background lies in that development CFD technology so strong that in ten years, race cars could have developed entirely without wind tunnels. Toto wolff, team boss Mercedes however, he is skeptical whether the principle of pure theory would work before the result is put on track. “We all agree that one day the calculations will be so accurate that we could really give up wind tunnels. But this is a huge step in the policy and for me personally, security issues are also being raised here. Here we are talking about the fastest race cars in the world that generate more vacuum than ever before. I don’t know if we should experiment with the lives of racers if we were to rely entirely on CFD technology. I estimate that 2030 is a realistic goal to make this happen. And of course this also brings lower costs."
Marcin budkowski, business director of the team Renault, on this subject, he considers: “We've been talking about this for a long time. The danger is simply that you make a car based only on calculations and then you come to the track for the first time, where the car behaved completely differently than expected. How a team can get out of this mess, I don’t know. A lot in Formula 1 revolves around correlations - do the data from the computer and the wind tunnel match the values we get on the track? Today, the wind tunnel plays a very big role." Andreas Seidl, team boss McLaren, then adds: “In the long run, I believe that such a step is possible. The CFD is making remarkable progress. However, to give up the wind tunnel altogether is still a long way off for me."
