The Grand Am season is a blur as well with bimmerworld as we speed to the podium at both of the first two races (beautiful Barber is pictured). Electron Speed helps bimmerworld get the finishline by providing a reliable Motec based electronic system, Bosch engine management tuning and data-based, engineering consulting. To learn more about this win and other recent news, visit the bimmerworld website.
Tristan echoes the feeling of the whole Performance Tech weekend as we showed our strength at Sebring: Tristan led the team to a 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th place finish in the first Prototype Lites race of the season with a strong field. In the second race the team finished 1st, 6th, and 7th with Tristan at the top of the podium again. For 12 hours of Sebring, Performance Tech had the second fastest car of the Prototype Challenge class with Raphael Matos at the wheel. It is too bad that a mechanical issue knocked us out of contention for a podium finish. Click the name for more on Performance Tech or Tristan Nunez.
Electron Speed provides engineering, data and electronics support. The car pictured has a Motec data system supplied by Electron Speed.
Work in progress: turn these carbon panels into mission control.
Mission complete.
While this is not new technology it seems to be gaining popularity with our customers: sequential gear boxes with full throttle shift and blips on the downshift. It is simple, fast and proven. This functionality has been in Motec ECUs since the M4.
In this picture you can see a system we implemented with a Motec ECU, drive by wire and our shift knob sensor.
Green vertical marker: The driver is at full throttle and has reached the intended upshift point. He has taken up the slack in the shifting system (green, Gear Pos Volts). The shift force is rising (purple, Gear Shift Force). The ignition cut is kicked off (orange, Ign Cut Level). The RPM (red) starts dropping and the car is in the next gear at full power less than 100 milliseconds later.
Blue vertical marker: The driver is off of the throttle and has pulled the shift lever to initiate a downshift. The throttle is automatically blipped making the downshift smooth and consistent. The automated blip is seen by noticing that the green engine throttle position sensor is reading higher than the driver's throttle pedal.
The result was lower and more consistent lap times.
Racing is not the only place that we take our products to the extreme. Through our sister company, Electron Controls, we supplied some large versions of our current sensors. From top to bottom these sensors are rated for +/-125, +/-550 and +/-1200 amps continuous!