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2030 wind tunnel ban "a realistic prospect" - Budkowski
Renault executive director Marcin Budkowski has said proposals to scrap the use of wind tunnels in Formula One by 2030 are "realistic" but "challenging." Wind tunnels are used by F1 teams to test new developments on scale models of their cars and predict how the full-size machine will react before entering the build phase of the final product. Article continues under video Teams are already severely limited in the number of hours they can spend in the facilities, and rapid advances in computing technology have allowed some of the work to be replaced with virtual testing using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Budkowski believes a ten-year timeframe for the transition...
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