After discovering which way the wind blows inside Renault’s windtunnel and prowling the open floor of its immaculate design office, we found our way to the simulator room where one Daniel Ricciardo will likely be spending a lot of time the start of the season. While Renault’s 2019 chassis is still in the process of being built, its digital doppelgänger already exists, thanks to a team led by Ben Morgan, our helpful guide to the simulator’s inner workings. Despite his youthful demeanour, Morgan’s enjoys a vast experience of simulation with previous stints at McLaren and Ferrari before he settled at Enstone. “It looks like kind of a glorified computer game, but what we found is if...
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