7 Days in Our F1 Wind Tunnel - Time lapse - Sauber f1 team

How would you like to spend an entire week in the Sauber F1 Team wind tunnel? Just keep watching and we'll show you a week's worth of wind tunnel activities from a number of years ago. We think we'll be showing you more than has ever been shown before! Now, we won't be giving you the secrets of our latest car because it's a slightly old video and we've changed a little bit the way we work in the wind tunnel. One of things that has changed is that we used to work in the wind tunnel 24h a day in 3 shifts. Now we work less because of restrictions imposed on us by the regulations. But let's start from Sunday night to Monday... So you see the final preparations of the model before we start testing, and then testing begins seriously... The model is able to be raised up and down. We can roll it, yaw it, pitch it. We can steer the wheels. There's lots of things we can do! An actual test is almost like a miniture version of a Grand Prix simulation. We can really move the model around a lot. And if you keep your eye on what the model does every now and then you'll see some of these motions. The frames we see are actually taken at a time step - I won't tell you the exact time step. You won't be able to work it out exactly because not all the steps are equal. But you will see "pit stops" and testing happening in the wind tunnel. We also did some maintenance on Wednesday - which is happening right now in the video. We've covered the model, done some work on the moving ground. Actually, we've removed the belt and then put the belt back on again. And then we're back to doing further testing. We're able to do things like remove the nose, remove the rear wing, we can actually take the whole model apart. Some of the pit stops you see - we call them pit stops because for us it's a little bit like a pit stop. We're trying to do it as quickly and as well as we can. The main parts of the car can be removed quite quickly and then replaced. And even the whole model can be removed and replaced reasonably quickly, which we do I believe twice in this 1 week long sequence. Here: the model's gone, back again... So we have a steel belt with some surface on top of it. It was removed, it's gone back again and now we go back to doing further testing. So you can see that the boys are using a protective mat. The belt that we used is made of steel and the steel belt is strong, but it's delicate if you drop something *** top of it. And then at the end the little red lights in there, by the way, are lasers that we use for measuring something and just keep shining 24/7. If you'd like to comment please do comment below. And check out our other Tech Bites videos. If you enjoyed this make sure you SUBSCRIBE to your YouTube channel! Have fun, enjoy!