Industry News
News for 3rd December 2008
NASCAR Tech Centre wins SAE award
The 2008 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International Motorsports Engineering Conference Award has been presented to the NASCAR Research and Development Centre for its efforts towards “designing safer and more competitive vehicles.”
NASCAR’s new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car, a seven-year project undertaken at the R&D Centre, made its debut on the track in 2007 and was fully implemented into the series at the beginning of the 2008 season. The new car was designed with three primary goals in mind: improving driver safety, improving competition, and helping teams be more cost efficient.
Peter Wright, FIA Technical Consultant and the conference’s keynote address speaker, presented the award to Mike Fisher, NASCAR’s Managing Director of the R&D Center on Tuesday.
Receiving the award Fisher said, “The NASCAR R&D Centre is honoured to receive this award and our thanks and appreciation go out to all of the people in our industry who have been involved with the development of the new car, including the race teams, owners, manufacturers, and the staff here at the R&D Center. Safety is our No. 1 priority and is certainly an initiative that we work on every single day.”
EEMS Hybrid Seminar moved to Silverstone
The venue for the hybrid technology seminar hosted Motorsport Development UK’s Energy Efficient Motor Sport initiative on December 10, has been changed to the Innovation Centre at the UK’s Silverstone race circuit near Northampton.
The event which will explore the relationship between the use of hybrid/KERS technologies in motorsport and the wider automotive industry, while also highlighting potential new applications in motorsport, will feature speakers from a range of technical backgrounds. These include Jon Hilton the owner of Flybrid Systems which has been developing a kinetic energy recovery system for motorsport applications, David Hemmings the head of engineering at Prodrive and Paul Andrews from Oaktec, which develops and races production based hybrid Honda cars
EEMS Campaign Partners wishing to attend get priority booking, but of course, companies or individuals who are not an EEMS Campaign Partner are very welcome to come along to the event, which is free to attend.
Companies and individuals wishing to register to attend can do so by logging onto a dedicated online booking system at http://eems.delegate-management.com
