Racecar Engineering

A different approach

I’ve race engineered since 2010 and each event, series and team have taught me new skills, but my time at Multimatic has so far been one of the biggest learning experiences.

Most of my career as a race engineer was at Audi Sport Team Joest, where there was a large element of trackside testing. I worked closely with simulation and performance engineers, but their day-to-day work, and the intricacies of their simulation tools, wasn’t something of which I had first-hand knowledge. As the experts in their field, there wasn’t a need to micromanage, rather to provide guidance on where

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