Does the Perfect Lap exist? Today Grand Prix racing is becoming more and more complex, with teams ever more reliant on real-time data in the search for the Perfect Lap. McLaren Group are implementing SAP for real-time optimization of their business, and this film explores the importance of real-time data to McLaren's engineers [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J4QPVNtWko]Does the Perfect Lap Exist? Part 1 - McLaren Engineers - YouTube[/ame] Really good article on all this can be found at http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/blog/alan-henry/search-perfect-lap/
Interesting but it looks like the future will replace the human drivers with remotes. The "human" driver will always be the weak link. I hope this does not EVER happen.
Yup, the human driver will always be the weak link. this is why Loeb was faster than the "ideal conditions " simulation at Pikes Peak.
The driver won't be replaced because if they were nobody would watch. It would be like a video game cut seen.
This is the perfect F1 lap....... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tleg5CUWZY]Ayrton Senna's Pole Lap - Monaco 1991 - YouTube[/ame]
who do you think is putting in the calculations for the computer to figure the perfect lap!!! That person is probably not as good at their job as a great driver is at his. ( Pikes Peak ) then of course you got to have the car setup perfect as well..
You have to remember that this is simply taking into consideration the limits of the car, not the driver. These simulations have been proven to be extemely accurate. It is up to the driver to extract the limits of the car, which rarely happens.
In this second film of the series, SAP explores how real time data analysis helps drivers in their search for perfection on the race track. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jIplaGi98]Does the Perfect Lap Exist? Part 2 - Drivers - YouTube[/ame]
Just for the sake of argument, how is it then that a driver could beat the calculated perfect lap? If "someone" has figured out the limit of everything on the car set up, the driver should only be able to equal the "perfect lap time" not exceed it, as that would mean the car exceeded it's limits.. Does that make sense.. A person is giving the computer the calculations to use to come up with the perfect lap. Be it tire grip, track grip, HP, Torque, down force, drag co-efficent, weather conditions etc... If all that info is perfect, dead on the money, there should be no way to go quicker.. assuming all the info is maxed out for that particular timed run.. and that will change with the weather.. so with all that I see how a driver could beat said time as conditions change..but that also means just maybe the calculated time is alittle too perfect and can't be matched. If it can be off alittle one way it can be off alittle the other..
There can also be imperfections in the data given to the computer, but all things considered a full perfect lap is extremely rare from a driver.