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FIORANO MODENESE, ITALY – JANUARY 27: Carlos Sainz of Spain drives the (55) Scuderia Ferrari 2018-spec SF71H on track during a five-day test at Fiorano Circuit on January 27, 2021 in Fiorano Modenese, Italy. (Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images)

Ferrari look to simulation technology to get back on top in F1

Ferrari will use the facility to help develop their all-new car for 2022, when the sport’s sweeping new technical regulations come into force.

Ferrari

FIORANO MODENESE, ITALY – JANUARY 27: Carlos Sainz of Spain drives the (55) Scuderia Ferrari 2018-spec SF71H on track during a five-day test at Fiorano Circuit on January 27, 2021 in Fiorano Modenese, Italy. (Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli/Getty Images)

Ferrari have completed the construction of their new state-of-the-art simulator facility at Fiorano.

The famous F1 team will use the facility to help develop their all-new car for 2022, when the sport’s sweeping new technical regulations come into force.

Ferrari keen to fight back

Ferrari hope to begin using the simulator with their top drivers in September, after the summer break, while using their existing sim in the meantime to develop their current SF21 car, and prepare for race weekends.

Maranello had housed the previous sim setup and will continue to see action to support their young drivers including official test driver Callum Ilott and Formula 2 challenger Robert Shwartzman.

The new sim facility is the result of a collaboration between Ferrari and UK-based company Dynisma, headed by ex-Ferrari engineer Ashley Warne, and is said to be at the very cutting edge of F1 technology.

“The new simulator is absolutely at the cutting edge in this field and reproduces in a 360° environment, the lowest latency and the widest bandwidth of anything currently on the market. It is based on a completely new concept the result of a collaboration between Scuderia Ferrari and Dynisma, a UK-based company headed up by former Ferrari engineer Ashley Warne. It has been produced exclusively for the Maranello team,” a press release from Ferrari reads.

Teams will be afforded less time on the track in the future and Ferrari hope that the sim can help them return to the top of the sport.

“Simulation and digital technology are going to play an ever more important role in the development of a Formula 1 car and we believe we have made the best possible choice, focusing on creating a tool that will enable us to make a generational leap in this sector.

“To produce it, we chose Dynisma, a young and dynamic company. It has taken two years to complete this project and now we are ready to start using it on the 674 project, which is the name given to the car that will be produced based on the new technical regulations that come into force in 2022.”

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