VI-grade Announces Record Subscriptions to the 2010 Edition of the Virtual Formula Competition
26/02/2010
Marburg, February 25th, 2010 – VI-grade GmbH, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that a record amount of teams have subscribed to the 2010 edition of the Virtual Formula competition. In particular, VI-grade has received 66 registrations, almost 4 times as many as last year’s edition of the competition. A selection of the logos of all participating teams can be found below.
“Last year’s edition of Virtual Formula represented a strong competition against 18 teams from all over the world”, declared Guido Bairati, Sales Director of VI-grade. “We are extremely pleased by the resonance that we – together with the sponsors of the initiative – have managed to build around this year’s edition.”
Virtual Formula 2010 is built upon the rules and regulations of the popular Formula SAE and Formula Student and is based on the usage of VI-Motorsport, VI-grade’s interactive simulation environment for motorsport vehicle modeling and dynamic analysis. All registered teams will be granted access to the VI-grade state-of-the-art simulation software to find the best set-up for their car. The participating teams are challenged to optimize the performance of a virtual race car, minimizing the lap time on a given autocross track. The competition will be won by the team that will drive the vehicle with the shortest laptime on the given circuit. The winning team will receive a driving simulator powered by the VI-grade real-time vehicle model and the Concurrent Linux-based hardware, for a total estimated value of 30,000 EUR.
The 2010 Virtual Formula edition is sponsored by Albatech Monaco, Concurrent, FStotal.com, MIRA, Danisi Engineering, Triple8.
More information on the Virtual Formula can be found on http://www.vi-grade.com/virtualformula.html.
About VI-Motorsport
VI-Motorsport is a software environment for vehicle modeling and dynamic analysis, which helps race cars designers and track engineers to predict vehicle performance when set-up parameters are modified, before the car is built and also in support of race events. VI-Motorsport is based on a faster-than-real-time simulation solver which can predict the virtual car behavior and has been extensively validated against test data in various race car series. The VI-Motorsport environment is complemented by the ability to create road data (both drivelines and tire contact profiles) starting either from GPS, laser or telemetry data measurements, or from a fully analytical description. VI-MotorSport will also write out data that is fully compatible with ATLAS from McLaren Electronic Systems, making it simple to integrate with existing tools. Finally VI-grade’s advanced driver model allows users to drive the vehicle model around the specified track. For all those companies involved in the process of finding best vehicle set-up and performance whilst at the same time limiting economic resources, VI- Motorsport is an unprecedented support and a revolutionary aid to the engineering team. VI-Motorsport includes following software modules: VI-CarRealTime, VI-Road, VI-Tires, VI-Driver, VI-Animator and VI-SuspensionGen.