When Corvette
Racing engineers wanted to optimize the roll cage design for a racing version of the C5 Corvette, they knew who to call.
Not exact matches
But his best of the day (so far) was without doubt when his
race engineer asked if he
wanted to do another lap.
I got channelled at a very early age into
engineering because I was good in maths and physics and because I
wanted to be a
racing driver and design my own
racing cars,?
I wouldn't
want a manual in a car like this and surely (non
racing car) buyers of hyper cars should look to Porsche
engineers to get the ingredients right.
«The car should be fast, but Le Mans is a cruel place, and Ford
wants us to rock the first time we're there,» says Larry Holt, vice president of
engineering at Multimatic, which developed the
race car and will build the road cars.
After a successful 1990
racing season in Group C with the C 11
race car developed by Mercedes - Benz with the Swiss Sauber team, the Mercedes - Benz
engineers wanted to push their limits and that's how the C 112 prototype became a reality.
It can sometimes be a little tricky to navigate through the conversation options to get the desired setup result with your
engineer, but it's a damn good feature nonetheless and lets those that simply
want to
race get on with it with minimal fuss.
There are now so many things you can ask your
race engineer it's nigh on impossible to do the movement on the gamepad to select the option you
want to ask within the very short period of time you are given to select it.
When you're introduced to a
race and one of the Most
Wanted cars, it's through an arty short with weird camera angles and effects like a car being sucked out of what looks like white paint, glimmering as it emerges like a Playboy centerfold for
engineers.
In a world of downforce, finely tuned
engineering and perfecting the
racing package, I
wanted to hear what an F1 car sounded like while rumbling over the speed bumps.