Competition, take two
Based on what we did during 2020’s lockdown in the ChassisSim Race Engineering competition, and the positive response we received to it, we decided to run it again in 2021.
As with the first competition, the winning entries showed some innovative approaches, but also highlighted some pitfalls showing how you don’t use racecar simulation. Given what a great learning experience it proved to be, some of the lessons learned are what I’ll be discussing in this article.
The focus of this year’s competition was engineering a mid-engined GT3 car at Bathurst. I did this for a couple of reasons. Firstly, thanks to Covid, we will not be seeing a GT3 car at Bathurst for a while. Given this is both a tragedy and a travesty, I felt it my civic duty to address this. Secondly, the vehicle model I gave the contestant was based on the ChassisSim LP560 GT3 template. As the
