If you have 16 minutes to spare, you might like to spend it with Stephan Rozer lapping the Nürburgring Nordshleife. Especially when this video from 1987 stars the Ruf CTR “Yellow Bird”
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The UK has a ‘golden opportunity’ to lead the electrification of supercar production if it can attract investment into the domestic supply-chain, according to Michael Leiters, CEO of McLaren Automotive. “We must harness the skills, knowledge and ingenuity of the UK motorsport and performance car industry to create a global, high-performance centre of excellence”
EDAG Group’s Simulation Center in Wolfsburg, Germany, gives automotive customers the power to ‘Test Before You Build’ through a suite of VI-grade driving simulator technologies
Switching to electric powertrains leads to high axle loads, and thus the optimisation of driving dynamics and driving-resistance measurement requires even more precise measurement technologies. Kistler’s P109 wheel torque transducer has a measuring range of up to 9,000Nm, with precise measurement results, even with high axle loads
Motion simulator company, Dynisma, has been ranked as the highest placed automotive technology business in The Sunday Times 100 list of Britain’s fastest-growing private companies, based on £11.9m of simulator sales and growth of 78.86%. The company expects to double revenues again in FY24
Join BMW M CEO Franciscus van Meel for a walkaround of the new BMW M5. Highlights include 727hp of hybrid V8 power, 1,000Nm system torque, all-wheel drive and Adaptive M suspension. The downside? Well, possibly just the 2,510kg kerb weight
Watt Electric Vehicle Company (WEVC) has developed a lightweight architecture based on its PACES (Passenger And Commercial EV Skateboard), which enables cost-effective production of almost any low-to-medium volume EV
Honda Racing Corporation USA has unveiled its next-generation Driver in the Loop (DIL) racing simulator, which has been installed at the company’s operations centre in Indianapolis. The DIL simulator features multi-body vehicle dynamics physics simulation software, capable of generating up to 1.5MB of data each second
AB Dynamics, an automotive test system supplier, has released a software update designed to enable OEMs and test houses to automate the testing and validation of the latest industry-standard active safety protocols by all the major regulatory and consumer bodies
Comfort in action: Tenneco’s highly tuneable hydraulic rebound stop (HRS) system is designed to minimise the damper rebound topping energy and noise encountered in BEVs and other comparatively heavy passenger vehicles. The Ride Refine Advanced HRS also eliminates the need for chassis reinforcements. Here’s how it works…