The wages of sim

Our resident number cruncher explains why race engineers who don’t make use of chassis simulation could be missing out on a gold-plated opportunity to fully understand their racecars

By DANNY NOWLAN

One of the great tragedies of this business is that many in the motorsport engineering fraternity actually don’t understand the real worth of simulation. As the principal of ChassisSim Technologies I’ve seen this at first-hand. I have lost count of the number of prospective customers who just want a magic bullet, or those who get so wrapped up in the squiggly lines or the driver-in-the-loop rig graphics they actually miss the point entirely. The key thing that simulation brings to the party is that nothing, and I mean nothing, will help you understand your car like simulation will. If you want to know the secret to being consistently quick you must know your car inside out. Once you know your racecar inside out making those key judgement calls in the heat…

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Racecar Engineering (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2018

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