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Motorsport ▪ High-performance engineering ▪ Niche manufacture and assembly Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology www.ricardo.com Motorsport 2 Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology Motorsport Motorsport Total supplier capability for two- and four-wheel, on- and off-track motorsport vehicles. Our mission of delivering excellence In addition, we believe that truly through innovation and technology has collaborative partnership, communication always been borne out across our extensive and project management are as key to the motorsport portfolio. We strive to give our success of a project as the engineering, clients a winning, competitive edge through technical and production expertise that outstanding engineering delivery. goes into it. Not content with the multiple land-speed Our client teams can draw on the experience records under our belt, or the contributions and input of a diverse range of over 2,700 made to some of the world’s great racing experts across the business, giving us moments, our people are driven by helping valuable insight, new ideas and the perfect clients to reach the greatest heights within sounding board. their field. We put Ricardo inside, and our full weight Our expertise and legacy are extensive, behind, every vehicle we work on. resulting in a tried-and-tested offering that includes: • Component, system and powertrain design, from feasibility analysis and conceptualization to sign-off • Research, simulation and analysis • Strategic and technical consulting • Component, system and powertrain engineering and testing • Niche-to-volume manufacture “Proven pedigree in the development, testing, prototyping and supply of engines, transmissions and driveline systems.” Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology 3 Motorsport How we help We tailor projects to meet the unique needs of our clients. Access to 100 years of innovation and Customer-focused team dedicated to helping world-class technology our clients to win Proven track record in all aspects of Advanced R&D group developing next- motorsport generation technology Complete supply package, from concept Truly global footprint offering through to production and trackside worldwide client support support Thorough understanding of the Routine delivery of projects to the most complex interactions across the whole aggressive timescales race vehicle 4 Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology Motorsport Who we help Ricardo supports some of motorsport’s leading players. OEM motorsport constructors Single-make series Formula 1 Porsche Super Cup GP Masters World Series by Renault GT3 Super Cars IndyCar Indy Lights Le Mans LMP1 Le Mans LMP2 “In working with Ricardo, we have Moto-GP NASCAR engaged with a supplier that has Rally Raid the same passion for engineering R5 Rally Super Formula excellence and a total focus on WRC Rally delivering winning results.” Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology 5 Motorsport Who we are Ricardo’s extensive history in motorsport is matched only by the breadth of technologies it leverages. Whether advanced software simulation of a combustion close working relationships with the world’s governing process or precision machining and assembly, our ethos bodies, ensuring Ricardo remains at the very cutting edge has always been to create winning solutions through of the sport. innovative technology. Ricardo is committed to perpetuating its position as a At the heart of our winning technology is our people – a world leader in this field, and our flexibility and reactivity to team that has been driving performance and innovation clients’ needs has made us a partner of choice for many of since Ricardo’s earliest days. The majority of our engineers the most successful teams. We continue to invest regularly and technicians have joined us from the motorsport sector in developing our capability, through schemes such as and have a personal as well as professional passion for apprenticeships and graduate placements, to ensure success motorsport. They bring with them considerable expertise and innovation in the motorsport market for years to come. and knowledge in their respective fields, but also nurture “Offering the support, stability and resources of a large company, but with the flexibility and reactiveness of a small motorsport engineering specialist.” 6 Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology Motorsport Where we are With offices and technical centres located across the world, we can support clients wherever they are based. Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology 7 Motorsport History of motorsport excellence A legacy we are continuing to build. The history of Ricardo’s involvement in We also undertook pioneering work In the 1970s, we continued to pioneer motorsport is rich and varied, spanning with Wifredo Ricart (Alfa Corse, under the advancement of high-performance eight decades and involving varied racing the leadership of Enzo Ferrari) in the four-wheel-drive applications, with the disciplines and technologies. 1930s, collaborating on the design of invention of the viscous coupling. This was the Alfa Romeo Tipo 162 three-litre V16 widely used on a range of production and As early as the 1920s, our founder, Sir Harry supercharged engine. The engine was motorsport applications, most notably in Ricardo, was involved in the application of designed to challenge the all-conquering several Group-B rally cars in the 1980s. internal combustion engine technology for German racing teams of Mercedes-Benz motorsport. Sir Harry designed the three- and Auto Union. In the early 1990s, Ricardo provided key litre engines used by Vauxhall racing cars in analytical support to Formula-1 and the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy in 1922. The In the early 1960s, one of the original sportscar engine manufacturers on first major accolade came in 1936, when founders of what would become our advanced valve-train and crank-train Ricardo developed a diesel variant of the renowned driveline and transmissions dynamics. Rolls Royce V12 kestrel engine and helped capability, Harry Ferguson, developed a ‘Flying Spray’ set a new diesel speed record Formula-1 car to prove the feasible high- In the mid 1990s, the company was a key at Bonneville Salt Flats – 159 mph – a record performance application of four-wheel-drive supplier to Ford during their dominance with that would stand until 1950. Half a century technology. The resulting P99 was driven the Ford Escort of the rallying world, whilst later, Ricardo would return to Bonneville with to a single Formula-1 win in 1961 by Stirling also developing transmissions for the Jaguar another car – the JCB Dieselmax – to snatch Moss. The principles went into further XJ220 and McLaren Formula-1 road car. the diesel record back once more, at over development and were later applied to an 350 mph. innovative luxury coupé – the 1966 Jensen Ricardo’s presence at Le Mans and World FF – the first-ever four-wheel-drive road car, Endurance Cars came to the fore in the late and the first to feature ABS. 1990s and early 2000s, by supplying the 8 Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology Motorsport History of motorsport excellence dominant Audi R8 during its multiple wins. In the mid 2000s, Ricardo’s presence in Between 2007 and 2010, Ricardo supplied Our presence continued into the diesel era, Japan was cemented with the Japanese technical consulting and advice to with the design, development and supply GT series mandating the use of a Ricardo various regulating bodies regarding the of a truly unique transaxle to the Peugeot transmission due to significant improvement future direction of motorsport technical 908HDi FAP. in performance and reliability, reducing regulations, culminating in the Global Race cost per mile for the teams. Substantial R&D Engine concept. During the early 2000s, Formula-1 teams, work was also undertaken with helium trace including Benetton and Renault, were actively technology, to understand and model air Ricardo continues its legacy today with the using Ricardo’s transmission modelling and and fuel flow for the development of V10 supply of transmissions for the Porsche Cup dynamic simulation software to develop engines for Formula 1. Series, the longest-running, largest and most launch strategies and gearshift simulations. successful series in motorsport. Our teams Ricardo also worked in conjunction with From 2003 to 2006, Ricardo designed, remain actively involved in GT3, single- EEMS on pioneering fuel-flow meters (FFMs) developed and delivered the highly seater, rally and endurance racing, furnishing for the British Touring Car Championship, the innovative Petronas World Superbike engine, Formula 1 with over 40,000 components output of which influences today's dramatically increasing performance and since 2002. Formula-1 FFMs. reliability, while in 2006 it contributed to the development of the world’s fastest diesel engine for JCB, the Dieselmax. “Our own history is the precedent for delivering engineering excellence in motorsport for decades to come.” Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology 9 Motorsport 10 Delivering Excellence Through Innovation & Technology Motorsport High-performance engineering and production Motorsport performance that’s in a league of its own. Just as our clients aspire not only to get to use across a range of high-performance the top, but to stay there, Ricardo continues vehicles. Much of the work we do is carried to evolve its expertise and skills in the out in our own facilities,