Ford boosting engineering help to NASCAR teams
Quote selected text Published October 23rd, 2007 in NASCAR News
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. What’s closely protected is the specifics of the setups each team runs.
“We 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,” 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 aren’t allowed to compare notes with the engineers at other Ford teams. They won’t take a setup—and I won’t let ‘em take a setup and go say, ‘Hey, why don’t you guys go try something like this?’ I pride myself on ethics, that my guys don’t go do that,” said DiMarco. “We do not take things off the car on race weekend … it’s more the tools and the methodologies, the processes that we share across the teams. All the teams know that going in.”
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They have to step it up because Toyota and Gibbs will pass them by if they don’t.
How refreshing that ANYWHERE on the internet holds the line on mannersa! Well done - may it spread and keep up the good work. Regarding “free Speech” - our Founding Fathers did not think they had to add judgement to the Constitution - guess they were wrong on this small point.
How refreshing that ANYWHERE on the internet holds the line on manners! Well done - may it spread and keep up the good work. Regarding “free speech” - our Founding Fathers did not think they had to add judgement to the Constitution - guess they were wrong on this small point.
I have been a racing fan since 1963 and this was the most boring NASCAR season on record, in my opinion - why? Did it have ANYTHING to do with the poor performance of Dale Earnheart Jr. NO!
I lost interest when it changed from the NASCAR Nextel Cup to the “Wonder which Chevy is going to win this week cup”
Even if I was a Chevy fan ( I am a Ford fan) I would be singing the same tune. NASCAR is only exciting when you do not know which Make/Driver is going to win each week.
NASCAR should have stepped in way early in the season and rectified whatever was causing Ford & Dodge to lose even if it meant handicapping the Chevys.
NASCAR please do not go the way of boring F-! where one or two teams always win -
b-o-r-i-n-g!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!