00:00Hi, I'm Tom Stanton, I'm Head of Driver Development at More Than Equal. This week
00:20we're with AVL and we're here to help drivers be a little bit better every day using engineering,
00:25sim and helping them be in the car. The goals of this first camp with AVL are really to
00:38expose our drivers to what world class sim operation looks like. How that is a connection
00:44between the operator and the driver and the analysis and understanding how that usage
00:50of planning and then using the sim and reviewing what you do to support the development as you
00:57start to go through your process of how you learn and how you develop. Difficult was probably the
01:03five of myself on the sim as in I want to push, I want to be fast, I want to just go 100% but
01:10sometimes it's faster to back off, just take it calm, take it easy and not overdrive because
01:16overdriving never lets anything good so just be calm, be you, have fun. And also just from the
01:23data analysis workshop I've learned so much about bricked terminology as well as just data analysis
01:29just basically like knowing like my minimum speed and like how much I can push out of the corner
01:34and there's many more things that I really think if I wasn't part of this I think I wouldn't have
01:38known so it's a really great learning time.
01:54My name is Michael Peinzit, I'm the department leader for race engineering at ABA Racetech so
01:59among other things we run the driving simulator which you can see in the background which we
02:03have been using today as part of the training for More Than Equal. The driving simulator is
02:09actually a great training tool, first of all when you get it wrong on the simulator it doesn't hurt
02:15as much and it's not as expensive on the real track. The other thing is obviously in the simulator we
02:20have very reproducible conditions that means lap after lap the conditions are the same, the car is
02:25the same, we can set up the system such the tire is the same every lap, the wind is the same every
02:32lap, the track grip is the same every lap, so you really see small differences in your driving in
02:37how the driver develops and that's why it's a great training tool for drivers.
02:48Obviously with More Than Equal with the limited level of experience that the young drivers bring
02:54with them, mileage is really important for them and doing that in the simulator is obviously a
02:59very good first step to prepare them for further outings on the track with the real race car and
03:03to move them ahead and bring them ahead with their driving skills with their toolbox so that they can
03:09maximise what they're doing on the racetrack. I think that this camp helps our drivers because
03:14we've always said we want them to be better adapted to coping the demands of drivers than
03:19anybody else. Our camps are very academic as well as very applied and as a consequence of that I
03:25think that what we will get from this camp is a greater understanding of how you can utilise
03:28sim now and in the future, how you can understand data and the things you should be looking at and
03:34talking to with your engineers and mechanics and finally just here and now what they're racing in
03:39karts and how they can maximise their performance.
04:09You just have to squeeze a little bit and it's tight enough.
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