One of the ways in which Formula 1 has changed in the 21st century is the adoption of driver-in-the-loop simulators. It all started in the early 2000s, maybe at McLaren, maybe Toyota or Ferrari; F1 teams are extremely secretive about their performance gains. Over the years, they have become more and more capable, but there are also high-end consumer SIMs like multi-axis setups that cost thousands of dollars. What is it that makes the multimillion-dollar simulators used in F1 so much more expensive and so much better suited to the job?
For one thing, latency.
“There is this close relationship between the inputs [a driver] Provides the car, the way the car reacts, and then the driver immediately senses it and reacts to it. So it’s a very dynamic closed loop involving the driver and the car,” explained Ash Warne, founder and CTO of UK-based simulator company Dynasma Motion Generator, which supplies DIL simulators to Ferrari, Alpine and soon to be Cadillac, which can cost up to $10 million.
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