[MVRC] Mantium Virtual Racecar Challenge 2025 (Grand Prix Cars)

[yinlad]

Secondarily, and this is not the fault of MVRC, these regulations are not that interesting compared to last year.

I don't agree, I think that last years cars were near the convergence of performance, this year there is more space to improve.

That much is certainly true. But I mean more that the process of developing a car in the last gen regs was more interesting than this new flat floor generation. It was such an unknown formula and unlike anything we had seen.

The quoted statement was purely from a F1 regs comparison rather than anything to do with mvrc or where development had reached

[LVDH]

Hey Everyone!

Today, I officially announce my participation in MVRC as AeroStar Racing with my first car G2V. I want to know how early I can submit my Car and how I can submit my design for rendering?
Hoping to get some Rookie Points and excited to see what Wizardry the other teams bring to the most prestigious track!
I am very excited, quite nervous, and a bit optimistic.
Wishing you the Best!

Welcome, cool to see how eager you are to submit your first car.
After some thought, I realized I can only delay the next race by one week. It will be on the 06.07.2025. Then, you submit your car, which will also get it rendered. But you can always create your own renders and show off.

Third, i'm sorry about CAEdevice. His mistake was met with a fair but harsh decision in this second race, after an unfairly harsh decision in the first race. Going on, i recommend more flexibility in such instances. If nothing else, to make amend.

So, after putting a lot of thought into what happened, I agree that I messed up with my judgement for race 1. The teams used parts supplied by MVRC and there was no rule defining what parts, in the end, define the ultimate design.
A race has to be done at some point, so I will not mess with the results anymore.
I apologize and I have an idea how to at least slightly make amends to the three affected teams to least give them a small amount of joy back. As everything with MVRC, it will just take a while, but I promise, to get it done.
Race 2 is what it is. So, it should be a warning to every team: If a design fails the CFD process, there is a super high chance of simply getting a DNF. I know, this is a harsh case, but as everything is so streamlined, repairing failed CFD simulations has gotten extremely hard and just takes way too much time away from other tasks, needed for MVRC.

Other than that, I am working very hard this week on MVRC, to improve some quality related issues and make sure, I can make better judgements in future and we can grow MVRC. I also asked myself why even grow it as it was always a lot of fun just being us on F1Technical. But I think everyone in MVRC puts crazy amounts of time into this and we need to be seen. On LinkedIn, we are getting to be something. This has gotten us to get cloudHPC to support us. This will mean, very soon, the teams can use it, which is already a great thing. I would really like to see the LinkedIn marketing, one day, leading to one of you getting his dream job as aerodynamics guy.

[CAEdevice]

So, after putting a lot of thought into what happened, I agree that I messed up with my judgement for race 1. The teams used parts supplied by MVRC and there was no rule defining what parts, in the end, define the ultimate design.
A race has to be done at some point, so I will not mess with the results anymore.

For me it's enough, no need to amend anything about Race 01. Chapter closed.

Apologies accepted: I don't think I'll be able to participate in the next race anyway, but I'm happy to have invested time in the "test car", which will be useful for everyone.

About Race 02: it would have been enough to check the cars before the simulations: I would have got a penalty or a warning that, in both cases would have changed the results only a bit. Anyway, Race 02 scrutineering was badly managed but I contributed with my intial error, I can't say may submission was 100% regular.

[k.ko100v]

Hi everyone,

I was very busy over the past week, so I’m actually taking the delay of the next race as a positive.

Regarding the last race – I have to say it was a solid win for JJR and a notable improvement from Koldskaal. I’m also very happy with my first-ever podium in MVRC! That makes two Bulgarians on the Monaco podium, following Nikola Tsolov’s win in F3

I noticed that the exhaust flow issue has already been fixed in the official runs – same for my engine inlet problem. The flow around the inlet geometry looks quite good, but unfortunately, this is only true in the official run. I still can’t get the inlet surface to work properly in my local simulations.

Many thanks to Matteo, who gave me some helpful advice a week or two before the race, but unfortunately nothing has worked so far.
Andre, would you have any suggestions on what else I could check to resolve this?

Thanks in advance,
Krasen