FORMULA ONE simulator facilities are normally off limits with so many secrets held. Indeed, the Mercedes simulator is used by Lewis Hamilton and George Russell before each race weekend to replicate on-track conditions and propose improvements. One of the measures of that is how often the race drivers come in to do these sessions themselves. “It used to be quite a luxury for the drivers come, maybe a few times a year, if that. “Quite often the drivers’ engineers will look through the data, as if it’s track data and look where the car is good or bad, at particular corner phases.”. In fact, all F1 teams use the vertical car to prepare for every track.

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