next week we have season-testdrive since 2008.
the tests are very limited since some years because there was an influence of tests in the last years: 1998 Ferrari had 165 test days! In 1999 only 100 test days per team were allowed - and only with at least three teams were testing on the same track. But the teams didn't really accept that rules.
I think Ferrari was the first team with an own test track (Fiorano) in the 70s.
What can we also say on history of tests. How was that in the past?
Today we have very little test drives and more and more tests in the simulator.
History of test drives
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, Apr 29 2012 19:24
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Geoff E
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Posted 29 April 2012 - 21:36
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 09:32
And there is also this thread which will give you a lot of detail of the history of test drives. There is a world of difference between giving a driver a trial, conducting a brief test of a car and development testing which this thread tends to gloss over.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 20:00
I am not clear if this is about special test drives by individual drivers or about testing by teams?
If the latter, it may be of some interest to explore how teams tested back in the past, before the sort of organised common test sessions that we saw in recent years. I recall that some teams tested at Goodwood for instance, after the end of formal racing there, and others at Snetterton. Lotus used Hethel of course (so Ferrari's Fiorano was the grande marque copying the garagiste!).
If the latter, it may be of some interest to explore how teams tested back in the past, before the sort of organised common test sessions that we saw in recent years. I recall that some teams tested at Goodwood for instance, after the end of formal racing there, and others at Snetterton. Lotus used Hethel of course (so Ferrari's Fiorano was the grande marque copying the garagiste!).
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 22:55
A sketchy overview of what we know about 1967 - different times, not only because of the seemingly randomness but also the lack of information!I am not clear if this is about special test drives by individual drivers or about testing by teams?
If the latter, it may be of some interest to explore how teams tested back in the past, before the sort of organised common test sessions that we saw in recent years. I recall that some teams tested at Goodwood for instance, after the end of formal racing there, and others at Snetterton. Lotus used Hethel of course (so Ferrari's Fiorano was the grande marque copying the garagiste!).
http://www.gdecarli......ests 1967.pdf
In the 1970s things already got quite a bit more organized IIRC, if only because of the cooperation with the tyre companies.
Edited by scheivlak, 30 April 2012 - 22:57.
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Posted 01 May 2012 - 15:09
Thank you
very interesting.
very interesting.
