Stefano Sordo is going to apply F1 thinking to help the RLLracing IndyCar team fulfill its potential
Sordo spent the past six seasons with McLaren Racing F1 as head and director of vehicle performance and, prior to that, enjoyed 10 seasons with Red Bull Racing as an aero performance team leader, then head of aero performance. Before that, Sordo had spells as a race engineer at RBR, at what was then called Scuderia Toro Rosso, at Jaguar Racing and at Arrows.
“And that really covers all the aero of the car – how do we do windtunnel testing, how we go testing the car on track with the different sensors, how we use the tools and how we can improve the tools. “And you don't need a massive amount of money. You need systems, you need the instrumentation on the car, which we are going to have, you need to use the simulation. So there is some investment, but you don't need millions and millions and millions. You know, a windtunnel is a windtunnel, a CFD is a CFD. The difference in Formula 1 is that each department has 50 people. But the simulation tools that we're using here are similar to what McLaren uses, for example.
“So I was mainly following the weekend, because my job was to optimize the car at the race weekend, but I didn't have to go to the race. Especially because, you know, F1 developed that type of infrastructure, what we call Mission Control, that really made the integration between factory and track seamless. It’s incredible. You know, and that is another technology that we can borrow from F1.
“I think, as opposed to finding tenths of a second, you'll find half a tenth here, half a tenth there,” he acknowledged. “It is a smaller margin, so the details make a lot more of a difference. I think that requires a bit of adaptation. Because there are a few things that in F1, you wouldn't bother about checking or understanding, while here every single little detail makes a difference. So that requires a bit of an adaptation to the things that you're looking at.
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