Ford boosting Engineering help to teams
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Ford boosting Engineering help to teams
Ford has made tremendous advances in providing engineering support to the Ford NASCAR Nextel Cup teams this year, but there are definite lines drawn on what Ford engineers can and will do to help the teams, said Pat DiMarco, the vehicle dynamics and chassis supervisor at Ford Racing Technology. What the engineers share among the teams is how to tackle problems and find solutions. Whatâs closely protected is the specifics of the setups each team runs. âWe share processes and simulation tools, the development of those to make them better, so if some of the stuff that the Roush guys are working on makes our simulation tools better, that gets applied across the board,â DiMarco, who has Ford engineers working in every Ford NASCAR shop lending help to individual teams. But those engineers who work on behalf of specific teams arenât allowed to compare notes with the engineers at other Ford teams. They wonât take a setupâand I wonât let âem take a setup and go say, âHey, why donât you guys go try something like this?â I pride myself on ethics, that my guys donât go do that,â said DiMarco. âWe do not take things off the car on race weekend ⌠itâs more the tools and the methodologies, the processes that we share across the teams. All the teams know that going in.â(Ford Racing)
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