Digital Twins in F1™ Racing Throw Down Big Gains for Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport:
Collaboration across Teams Is Vital
Management of the simulator is a team effort. There’s the test engineer who defines the program and the test items; the engineer who is looking at the data live and processing it as it comes off the car; the operations team that is ensuring accuracy between what the car is doing and the data being collected; and then there are the drivers. But it’s the interaction between the engineer and the operations team that evolves the car throughout the day. Collaboration is essential to guarantee the right results are communicated, and Spotfire software is one of the leading conduits to ensure this happens.
In this part of our “Digital Twins in F1™” series, we talk with the Vehicle Dynamics Group about how it leverages the fresh data, the new aerodynamic platforms, and the optimum performance from suspension and power units to choose the fastest combination from among the multitude of combinations possible—all with the help of TIBCO software.