Simulation in action

I was in the position at this year’s Le Mans 24 hours where I had the opportunity to help an old friend of mine who was up against it engineering an LMP2 car. What transpired was a great example of just how effective simulation tools can be in helping a race team on a very practical level. And it was also proof of the absolute worth of such simulation.

The car in question was the Inter Europol Competition Ligier LMP2, run by Keese Motorsport. Being new to the class the team was suffering from typical growing pains and they needed a hand, and since there were quite a number of bush fires that needed to be put out I stepped in with ChassisSim, to help point the team in the right direction with its racecar.

The first thing I did was to take the