Mclaren F1 sim, neuroscience and LH...
Noose
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/06/11/flawless_hamilton_makes_it_loo.html
wiseguy
So I guess what teams need to develop is a good simulator and then get a
promising young buck who can soak all this stuff in who has to live and
breathe in the simulator room and two years later,
presto.................all you need is a good car and you are in the money.
It wont work with anyone established like Kimi or Alonso as they don't feel
they need the benefits of a simulator.
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Phil Newnham
> Sort of puts the 'talent' into perspective and the hype. He's roboboy!
>
> http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/06/11/flawless_hamilton_makes_it_loo.html
We've got one of the best full motion simulators for road vehicles here,
and the other day I was listening to the department vehicle dynamics
lecturer talking about it - he pointed out that it is not an accurate
simulation of real driving, because there are a couple of things that it
cannot do. One of those things is the accurate simulation of steady
state cornering, because it's impossible to tilt the thing to a high
enough angle to get a constant .8G sideforce, and impossible to keep it
moving sideways to simulate the force for long enough. McLaren's
simulator will suffer from the same issues, even if they spend upwards
of $20m on it, and so although Hamilton has done lap after lap in
probably the best available simulator in the world, it still won't match
up to the physical demands of the real thing. The simulator gives him
"track" time, which means that he knows where to brake and where to
accelerate and so on, but most F1 drivers can learn a new track in
Friday practice. It's an advantage to know it already, for sure, but not
as huge an advantage as some people make out. The talent he displays for
instinctive racing is his own and cannot be taught, IMO.
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Phil