The Lola Yamaha ABT Formula E team is significantly beefing up its technical capabilities by acquiring a new dynamic, high-fidelity, compact Delta T1 Sport driving simulator from renowned sim technology company, Ansible Motion.
Via its parent company Lola Cars, the Formula E team will use the Delta T1 Sport simulator at its Silverstone headquarters to support its ABB FIA Formula E programme, which is going through several structural changes ahead of the arrival of Gen4 later this year.
Delta T1 Sport is designed for all single-seater and cockpit racing series – such as Super Formula, LMP2, LMH/LMDh, Formula E, F2, F3, F4 and Formula Regional categories. The all-new, patented Triform motion system (AML TMS1TM) delivers high-dynamic performance with a minimised footprint, complexity and cost of ownership.
“Delta T1 Sport delivers the fidelity that drivers and engineers crave in a compact, easy to install and operate, inclusive package that has not been available until now,” said Dan Clark, Ansible Motion’s managing director.
“This new class of simulator will unlock fresh opportunities for teams to efficiently pursue and extract vehicle performance gains by leveraging a streamlined, optimised approach. Our customers will benefit from best-in-class, combined solutions in terms of technical integration, technical support and value, with the freedom to distinctively configure aspects of their DIL simulation environment that ultimately lead to competitive advantages.”
“Within six-degrees-of-freedom motion space, DIL simulators must, first and foremost, deliver sufficient ground plane fidelity – especially for vehicle dynamics and motorsport applications, where vehicle directional control and stability dominate the virtual test-driving experience,” added Elliot Dason-Barber, Ansible Motion’s technical director, who also worked for Lola in its previous incarnation in 2009.
“Many simulators miss this fundamental point, by starting with legacy hexapods and then working backwards to sort out additional motion requirements with appendages that add complexity and cost.
“Our Stratiform motion architecture has always excelled in this area, with a first-principles, pure alignment with vehicle dynamics simulation and command authority. Our goal for the Delta T1 Sport was to keep this first-principles philosophy, while reimagining motion envelopes from the perspective of a high-stiffness, agile form factor that preserves low-latency, linear command-oriented dynamic fidelity across all motion axes, while also minimising the simulator’s physical footprint and reducing physical complexity,” added Dason-Barber.
Peter McCool, technical director of Lola Cars, who is in his second stint at Lola having previously worked alongside Dason-Barber at the British manufacturer, added that “we do not underestimate the impact this technology will have on our car development, software validation and race preparation, for both Formula E and future projects.
“As part of our relationship with Ansible Motion, we will also be able to offer this technology to our customers and clients, giving them the opportunity to experience first-hand the benefits of Driver-in-the-Loop simulation.”
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