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Why do F1 teams need simulators? - with Aston Martin's Stoffel Vandoorne

F1 Explains

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The Importance of Downforce in Simulation

We run the simulator program the same way we run a test program in the circuit. Often the race engineers will be there running, running the driver. And it's run, a basic run plan. So essentially everybody knows what they're doing, run to run. It may well be something to do with a particular specification of the tire model where we're looking at maybe a different coefficient. We'll both very, it's like I say, it's very, very experimental. But it isn't necessarily a button on the steering wheel.

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