Ferrari have confirmed the departure of Pat Fry and Nikolas Tombazis from the Scuderia, amidst a reorganisation that started when new team principal Maurizio Arrivabene came in charge. Arrivabene, Managing Director of {Ferrari}’s Gestione Sportiva and Team Principal of Scuderia Ferrari, has restructured his team with a flatter structure and clear assignment of responsibilities.
If Vettel has less points than Alonso this year we know he is not as good as Alonso.bhall II wrote:How does that work anyway? Next year's car could be better than the current one, ergo its driver could be better?
ameen lets hope vettel and aloson get into same car either at ferrari ( i wnt mind raikonen being fired again when u r getting in excess of 20M$ and keep complaining about setup issues every other race , i think you are done in this business) or at mclaren.basti313 wrote:If Vettel has less points than Alonso this year we know he is not as good as Alonso.
If Vettel has more points than Alonso we know that the car is excellent.
Can't be easier.
And don't dare to say something different or you will be called "hater".
How would I love to see Alo and Vet in the same car...
If you say it that way round you're a fanboybasti313 wrote:If Vettel has less points than Alonso this year we know he is not as good as Alonso.bhall II wrote:How does that work anyway? Next year's car could be better than the current one, ergo its driver could be better?
If Vettel has more points than Alonso we know that the car is excellent.
Can't be easier.
And don't dare to say something different or you will be called "hater".
Richard wrote:If you say it that way round you're a fanboybasti313 wrote:If Vettel has less points than Alonso this year we know he is not as good as Alonso.bhall II wrote:How does that work anyway? Next year's car could be better than the current one, ergo its driver could be better?
If Vettel has more points than Alonso we know that the car is excellent.
Can't be easier.
And don't dare to say something different or you will be called "hater".
Ferrari F1 Team switches to driving simulator software from rFpro
by Autocar Pro News Desk Oct 14, 2014 - http://www.autocarpro.in/news-internati ... z4bEV.uxfs
Ferrari’s Formula 1 team is now using driving simulation software from specialist software company rFpro that models the world’s Grand Prix circuits with unprecedented levels of realism and response speed. The change was implemented following convincing results during extensive evaluation by Ferrari engineers.
Ferrari’s decision to change operational software, mid-season, underlines the scale of the performance improvement available because simulator downtime in F1 can mean costly interruption to the engineering development schedule. Ferrari already had a well-developed DIL (driver-in-the-loop) software solution in which they had invested significantly over a number of years, but the leap in performance was too great to ignore. “The trial of rFpro was so promising that we immediately put it to use in production-intent applications within our F1 team,” explained Ferrari’s Giacomo Tortora, responsible for Vehicle Dynamics.
To be fully effective as an engineering development tool for supplementing the limited track testing permitted in F1, simulation software must reproduce the track surface in minute detail and respond to dynamic inputs faster than the driver can detect. TerrainServer from rFpro is the first simulation package to fully satisfy both these requirements, and was selected after an exhaustive evaluation process.
"I think Ferrari’s tests are the most demanding faced by any vendor. We tested video bandwidth and latency, road surface data quality and visual accuracy for the digital circuit models,” said Tortora.
"It is important that the circuit model captures the road surface accurately, but also that it can be validated to ensure that our vehicle model is running on the same road surface as the real car,” he continued. "The way in which TerrainServer captures every LiDAR scanned data-point within the tyre contact patch, and integrates them all to provide our vehicle model with accurate road input, improves correlation with our measured data and also feels more realistic for the driver.”
To ensure the necessary level of track surface detail, rFpro uses LiDAR scanned data, reproducing surface features in 3D with an accuracy better than 1mm in Z (height) and 1cm in X and Y (position), representing a ten-fold improvement over the resolution previously available. In addition to its existing library of circuit data, rFpro can provide customers with turn-key solutions for scanning, modelling and providing high definition LiDAR data for other tracks, or even public road test routes.
Ferrari was equally demanding of the response speed, or latency, of the system, according to Tortora. "Video bandwidth is very important to us because we run multi-channel stereo projection and also wanted the fastest possible refresh rate,” he said. “rFpro are able to deliver the maximum video bandwidth, in stereo, at very high refresh rates with just a single frame of latency between our vehicle model and the projectors. This is the fastest solution on the market: video bandwidth is probably an order of magnitude greater than a traditional OpenGL based solution."
With most of the top F1 teams now using rFpro’s software, the company is turning its attention to the mainstream automotive industry, where the potential applications are even greater. The ability to simulate a vehicle’s dynamic behaviour accurately, with a driver in the loop, makes it feasible to assess extreme situations such as those encountered when testing ADAS systems, ESP and other control systems designed to affect the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle.
So... Ferrrari are basically the last of the big teams to make the transition to this simulation software? With the praise and positive quotes from the Ferrari personnel in the article, it sounds like the current generation of Ferrari driver-in-the-loop simulation must have been significantly out-dated as compared to the rFpro.Forza wrote:
...With most of the top F1 teams now using rFpro’s software, the company is turning its attention to the mainstream automotive industry, where the potential applications are even greater. The ability to simulate a vehicle’s dynamic behaviour accurately, with a driver in the loop, makes it feasible to assess extreme situations such as those encountered when testing ADAS systems, ESP and other control systems designed to affect the dynamic behaviour of the vehicle.
http://www.autocarpro.in/IMG/014/7014/f ... 1413279220
Are you seriously trying to deny the fact that the RB10 has been a better car than the F14T this season?basti313 wrote:If Vettel has less points than Alonso this year we know he is not as good as Alonso.bhall II wrote:How does that work anyway? Next year's car could be better than the current one, ergo its driver could be better?
If Vettel has more points than Alonso we know that the car is excellent.
Can't be easier.
And don't dare to say something different or you will be called "hater".
How would I love to see Alo and Vet in the same car...
Source: http://m.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/317737 ... -confirms/"Alonso is leaving for two reasons. One, because he wants another environment. Two, because he is an age at which he cannot wait to win again," explained di Montezemolo, who has been replaced by Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Ferrari parent company Fiat, in a wide-ranging interview on Italian television programme Porta a Porta.
Kingshark wrote: Are you seriously trying to deny the fact that the RB10 has been a better car than the F14T this season?
And as an Aloneo fan I'd relish the opportunity to see Vettel compete against Alonso in the same car, preferably a car with a loose rear end which is difficult to drive, because I know Alonso would trash Vettel.
Maybe they know something that we do not know about Alonso or his working methods.max_speed wrote:http://gptoday.com/full_story/view/5046 ... ntezemolo/
so disappointed to see him leave and not to see him becoming world champion with ferrari. i dnt knw wht else to say but i dnt like ferrari anymore and specially matiacci
i dont think so , it was alsono who kept them reasonable and respectful in past 3-4 seasons, compare his performance against his peers. they kept making turcks and he made them look like cars in hope that one season he will get good car , i think with management change his patience ran out. ferrari wanted him to commit his future to them and acknowledged that it may take years before they have a winning car and i guess he decided not too.Trocola wrote:[
Maybe they know something that we do not know about Alonso or his working methods.
They want to rebuilt the team and one of the first things they do is firing Alonso, my opinion is that they have their reasons
