BWT Alpine has completed the installation of a new, highly realistic driver-in-the-loop driving simulator by Dynisma at its Enstone headquarters.
Simulators have become key tools for Formula 1 teams to prepare and set up their cars on a race weekend, with a dedicated team running in parallel to the trackside operations.
This follows wider investment in new simulation technologies at Alpine to better understand the 2026 F1 regulations and help resurrect its fortunes on track, fighting for wins and championships.
“Simulator work is a core part of how we develop and refine the car across multiple areas and is especially useful when there are such big regulation changes,” said an Alpine spokesperson.
“Driver-in-the-loop simulation helps us to understand vehicle and system behaviours and to connect driver feedback with our wider engineering data.”
Providing 1:1 feedback
Dynisma was founded by Ash Warne, who previously worked at McLaren Mastercard and Scuderia Ferrari HP managing race simulators.
Its simulators are seen as a benchmark in the industry because they closely mimic high-speed cornering experienced by drivers with unlimited yaw capability and sustained lateral motion.
The simulator will also provide a close 1:1 of the actual car conditions faced by drivers Pierre Gasly and Franco Colapinto on track, with class-leading sub-five millisecond latency and up to 100Hz of bandwidth.
This fast feedback means drivers can react to inputs with no perceptible delay between what they see on the screen and what they feel through the controls.
This enables them to pick up finer details of car performance and minute changes in road surface and grip.
The Dynisma simulator will support correlation with wind-tunnel results and computational fluid dynamics analysis, helping engineers perform detailed analysis of the behaviour and interactions of car upgrades under F1’s 2026 regulations.
“In all forms of vehicle development, simulation needs to deliver realism and trusted correlation if it is to add real value,” said Warne.
“That depends on a true 1:1 correspondence between what drivers and engineers experience in the simulator and what is observed in track data, wind tunnel testing, and CFD.
“We are pleased to see this capability being used by BWT Alpine F1 team as a client, supporting confident decision-making across a complex development programme under the current regulations.”
