[MVRC] Mantium Virtual Racecar Challenge 2024 (Grand Prix Cars)

[Ft5fTL]

This is my entry for Monza:




Low downforce wings, new floor, new rear deflectors, and as usual; tweaked sidepods.

[variante]

As anticipated, only the wings have been changed for the upcoming Monza race.
You'll notice that this isn't a "minimum drag" configuration, but rather "mid-low". Hopefully, the relevance of braking and cornering performance will be enhanced by the official laptime simulator, compared to the one we're given.



Interesting sidepods from PurePower. It seems like the "RedBull intake" is becoming dominant. And a front wing with just 2 foils makes a lot of sense on low drag configurations.

Opposite approach from CAEdesign, but his drag and efficiency were already good at Silverstone, so I'm sure he'll be a strong contender.

G-raph is conservatively mirroring last year's configuration. Well, it worked last time!
150 simulations to develop the car is a healthy amount (isn't that much more than last year?).
I'm near enough, at 131. Maybe I'll run a few more for the last race, but I won't invest much more time in this Season.

[yinlad]

As anticipated, only the wings have been changed for the upcoming Monza race.
You'll notice that this isn't a "minimum drag" configuration, but rather "mid-low". Hopefully, the relevance of braking and cornering performance will be enhanced by the official laptime simulator, compared to the one we're given.
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Interesting sidepods from PurePower. It seems like the "RedBull intake" is becoming dominant. And a front wing with just 2 foils makes a lot of sense on low drag configurations.

Opposite approach from CAEdesign, but his drag and efficiency were already good at Silverstone, so I'm sure he'll be a strong contender.

G-raph is conservatively mirroring last year's configuration. Well, it worked last time!
150 simulations to develop the car is a healthy amount (isn't that much more than last year?).
I'm near enough, at 131. Maybe I'll run a few more for the last race, but I won't invest much more time in this Season.

Not me quietly on 300 so far

Not sure I share your optimism for a mid-low setup, Monza is just so insanely drag biased. More so without a DRS aspect of the lap simulation. I think this race could be very open reading into last year's results and depending on how it shakes out the championship might be VERY interesting going into R05

[LVDH]

Yes I submitted it, hopefully you guys received it on your side

Yes, can confirm and we even have another new team. Always great to see how more and more people get interested.

On my side, I had a super crazy week and have not even been able to submit the simulations. So, unfortunately you will all have to wait until next week for the results.

[G-raph]

This is my entry for Monza:
Low downforce wings, new floor, new rear deflectors, and as usual; tweaked sidepods.

Did you just turn up with a full F1 floor edge wing? I'm curious to see how much of it is left with the coarse mesh, and how you kept that legal in an X-plane, but that is some very impressive work.

G-raph is conservatively mirroring last year's configuration. Well, it worked last time!
150 simulations to develop the car is a healthy amount (isn't that much more than last year?).

Yes, it was 93 last year. However, I have changed my approach. Last year each simulation was a large geometry change, often in multiple areas of the car at once. This year the geometrical steps were much smaller, and always isolated to a single component. So it feels like I have spent much less time on CAD this year.

Not sure I share your optimism for a mid-low setup, Monza is just so insanely drag biased. More so without a DRS aspect of the lap simulation. I think this race could be very open reading into last year's results and depending on how it shakes out the championship might be VERY interesting going into R05

I'm with you on that one, I feel Variante's "mid-low" level is risky. However, given he starts with a higher base efficiency he'll probably get away with it.