BEHIND THE SCENES | Mercedes F1 Simulator!

last year we had an in-depth look into what goes on behind the scenes of the race support team over the course of the Melbourne Grand Prix and we ended it here at the driver in loop simulator well today we have an unrestricted access to that simulator and what goes on in the inner workings with me behind the wheel to run the simulator control room we've got Evo Richard and either it's a small team of people needed for pre-event Monza works what we're gonna be working on today so I'm what have you got in store so well let's start with a video for you we've got last year's quali clapping I'm gathering information on how Lewis is gonna be driving this lap so when I get into the sim I can try and replicate what he's doing with the wheel where he's breaking the gears he's using in the corners I'm using my analytical brain that I do on the sky-pad at this point to really understand where he's placing the car during the day we'll pull up some different options in the sim get some correlation going to make sure we've got the cornering speeds matched the car balance and then we'll try some different things during the day yeah it's time to get ready helmet on and give it a go one massive struggle the short little lap let's get it over the hay load [Music] what's the lap time we were aiming for 2020 okay so I'm looking for a 20 lap time I've done a 23.8 in my first lap trying to match Lewis Hamilton it's quite a difficult thing that was a much better run through the second chicane pretty much the best I've got I reckon yeah so we're missing just a bit of grip in the slow speed on the front just it's washing out mid corner specially turn one turn two more than what I was looking out on the video yeah okay copy so now the interesting part really starts with but if match the car as best we can to the real world I'm putting happy in the car and now I'm gonna have a whole series of blind tests thrown at me to see if we can make the car go any quicker so I'm constantly analyzing the car at this stage thinking about the break-in how the car responds and the turning and change her direction and the traction I reckon I've got slightly more rear downforce pushing the front on in the mid corner of medium and higher speed and I can also see a my delta and just losing time on the straights I've got more understeer mid corner I can't hang on to the front end the wrist is too stable so and this is option two okay we'll compare this again once you've finished to the baseline it's not something we've talked and but the first option when you're looking at a different downforce and drag level he's very perceptive so he can pick that out straight away from driving it he's probably one of the best there is he has a way of meticulously logging everything in his brain and he'll it'll not drive the car for five six weeks he'll then get back in and we'll give him an option obviously but don't tell him the option Hugo this reminds me of the third option we did the Thursday second week in April so the way that a race driver can log so many of these very small details but for so long and he'll go oh I know what exactly what this one is because we did it a year ago so yeah he's he's very very good at what he does if we talk about option one fairly subtle I felt a bit more rear support and braking I could see it was losing a bit of time on the Delta demonstrates but by the time he arrived in turn six and seven it was pushing on the car and the front end even more the base time was so an area where I felt like it was quite weak already it was just creating even more understeer and stopping me from getting on the power you can't see it quite clearly and in the data if you if we compare red being option one blue being being baseline you can gain in the in the corners but you're losing it instantly on the straights the option to yeah I found it was better than the baseline similar levels of grip through the corners and braking zones but by the time you arrived in the medium speed you've definitely had a bit more front-end and we could get into the corner better and the front would stick mid corner allowing you to open up the throttle earlier the rear wouldn't snap and you still had the same grippers before in the rear but you just had more front and you just roll the speed through six and seven and eleven there were the three main places and I was gaining lap time thank you very much it was a good good session gave me some good direction I can come again yeah [Music] so there we go wraps up a day here in brightly on the simulator have you found it entertaining and yes a view into my world and what goes on here at the factory I remember this is correlating the car to last year pre-event work for Monza and when the car runs on the track in real life they'll get more data from that and they'll start that same process all over again so let's see how that translates in real life when the car hits the circuit

Channel: Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

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Keywords: Formula One, Formula 1, F1, Formel 1, Grand Prix, GP, Race, Racing, Racetrack, Track, Circuit, Automotive, Auto, Car, Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes, Benz, AMG, PETRONAS, Team, Silver Arrows, Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas, Valtteri, Nico Rosberg, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull, Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc, McLaren, W11, 2020, SIM, F1 simulator, Mercedes simulator, Anthony Davidson, F1 SIM, Mercedes F1 Simulator, F1 explained

Id: oQkgWLI_uAQ

Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 30 2020

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There you can see how a Simulator session is managed