>...even temperature is not a very good measure of achieving maximum grip.
>I'm going to quote here from Carroll Smith's 'Drive to Win' since he
>probably knows far more about this than the combined knowledge of this
>ng:
Two things...
1) Carroll Smith is talking about real world situations, affected by
issues which may or may not be modelled in a sim. The real world
information was found by informed speculation and by trial and error,
and that is how it needs to be found in sims too (or Dave Kaemmer
could just tell us exactly what is modelled and what will work!).
2) Even given parity of forces acting on the car between real world
and sim, Carroll does not tell us (or perhaps only you do not tell
us!) when the temperatures were taken, and with what equipment. A
slowing down lap could affect temperatures to be measured in the pits
(since the car and tyres would not be operating under full load), or
perhaps they are comparing on-line realtime data as we are. Without
knowing that apples are being compared to apples it is difficult to
draw conclusions, for me at least.
Additionally, given that Prost and Senna had different setup ethos
(and driving styles) and Hill and Villeneuve also different styles of
driving and setup, and both were with the same team and equipment, I'd
say it's not a subject on which anyone can claim to have definitive
knowledge. If the clock tells you it works, then it works, although to
be honest I doubt that most of us would be consistent enough in
driving over a full fuel load to be able to tell the difference.
Cheers!
John
