The secrets of Colapinto in the Alpine simulator: why his work was key in the improvement of the team

Infobae - 18/04
How it works and who accompany the Argentine pilot at the team's base. Why their effects are increasingly real and allow cars to enhance. From the inside, the development of the monopostos of 2026
Franco Colapinto explained the Bahrain circuit. Thus the pilots know a circuit without having yet run there in F1, although the Argentine already competed in Sakhir in Formula 2 and Formula 3

About 30 years ago, motoring had one of its great revolutions with the arrival of the first simulators. Technological development led to these tools to have all nuances and reproduce every detail for the training and training of the pilots. In Formula 1 they meet a preponderant role, to the point of having a team working together on race weekends. Rapidly correcting the tuning of a car can be worth points and that is what Franco Colapinto did last week in Alpine.

The story tells that the first F1 simulator was created by one of the maximum revolutionaries of the Máxima, Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus and author of changes that marked times, such as the Lotus 78 and 79, which imposed the soil effect. In the sixties, the English mounted a simulator based on a car of the time, so that fans could emerge vice and today it can be seen at the World of Speen Museum in Wilsonville, near Portland, Oregon, in the United States.

It was McLaren who started the super professional path and one of his main "products" formed in the simulator was a boy who was then 13 years old, Lewis Hamilton, who faced the head of the English team and told him that one day he wanted to run for them. Stevenage's w...
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