F1 2012 What is Optimal R&d approch???

[harsharip]

I am driver 1 in force india in my sesson 2 I had one choice to make a deciesion to make the R&D stop and let team to get advantage in Australia next year .

What advantage I get from it???

What disadvantage I get in my current season???

Does updates make huge diif in performance???

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

For some upgrades the performance increase is indeed significant. Go for it

 

[f1mn]

Basically you will decide if the team focuses on the design of the next season's car, or continues to work on upgrading your current car. A good question to ask is how competitive you are in the championship and will some more upgrades help you achieve better goals in your current season.

 

[wabbithunta]

Does this help you out at all?

 

[kimi_iceman85]

Same question for me.
I had the opportunity to stop R&D, 4th season Mclaren.
Currently 1st in championship. But I chose to continue R&D. as mercedes and lotus are getting closer to my pace race after race, too risky to stop it.

For the ones who tried to stop R&D, how good is the car next year in Australia?? Do you feel a big difference?

 

[Camacho]

First of all: are you going to continue in the same team the next season? If not, don't stop R&D. If you have planned to continue in the same team stop R&D and the next season you will have a more competitive car since the start. This is my opinion.

 

[kimi_iceman85]

Yes, that's true, I thought about it when I chose. as I want to move.

But I wondered, let's say you're driving for caterham, and the car is not competitive, if you stop R&D, will you be able to score points and go for podiums the next year, or is it the car just a little better. How big is the performance gain?

 

[Camacho]

Yes, that's true, I thought about it when I chose. as I want to move.

But I wondered, let's say you're driving for caterham, and the car is not competitive, if you stop R&D, will you be able to score points and go for podiums the next year, or is it the car just a little better. How big is the performance gain?

The car will be a bit better, but for Caterham... it's difficult to say something about that. Caterham is one of the worst cars so even with a better performance it will be difficult to reach good results, in normal conditions...

I don't know how big will be the performance gain. Think about that other teams could do the same and stop R&D thinking on the nest season...

In a season you are improving your car race by race, but the other teams are improving their cars too. There is a lot of variability in the game. Finally, with Caterham, with improvements or not it will be impossible to battle for the championship, as I said before, in normal conditions...

 

[kimi_iceman85]

thanks for your answer.

I think I'll try to test the different R&D approaches as soon as I finish my current carreer. It must be very challenging to start a career with a bad car, and stay the 5 years with the same one, trying to improve it and eventually achieve good results.