Motorsport | rFpro

rFpro in motorsport

rFpro originally started as a project within a Formula 1 team to deliver a driving simulator capable of delivering vehicle dynamics testing. Since 2007 rFpro has grown to support all the major motorsport categories including F1, NASCAR, WEC, Indy, IMSA, Formula E and Super-GT.

Although predominantly a tool for engineering development, set-up calibration and testing, some of our motorsport customers also make use of rFpro for driver training, particularly for complex steering-wheel controlled on-car systems.

Lap Replay and
Side-by-Side Analysis

rFpro’s ReplayServer can be setup to record every single test on your simulators, allowing you to replay laps, to compare drivers’ laps side by side, synchronised by distance or time. Recorded laps, or data from off-line simulation can be injected into the simulation as Ghost Cars, or as live traffic, to assist with testing of race starts, qualifying hot-laps and with learning new circuits.

rFpro’s digital circuit maintenance contract is probably unique – few motorsport products actually save customers money without requiring them to first make a huge up-front investment.

The Digital Circuit Maintenance Contract allows customers in the major series, F1, NASCAR, WEC, IMSA, Formula-E, Super GT, Indy, V8 Supercars to collectively share the costs of circuit updates through rFpro.

Every year most circuits change, new kerbs, re-profiled corners, resurfacing the tarmac, changing or moving barriers, new grandstands . . . and every year rFpro updates the circuit models and their customers get the benefits for a fraction of the cost, benefiting from the large numbers of teams pooled together using rFpro.

Customers also benefit from continuously improved quality. Every year rFpro brings out new features that improve the rendering quality and visual appearance of the models and these updates are rolled into every new circuit update.

Digital road models

rFpro provides off-the-shelf HiDef LiDAR digital circuit models for F1, NASCAR, indy, WEC, IMSA, Formula E and Super-GT.

LiDAR survey

A major investment in road building and validation processes, and Circuit Maintenance contracts for the major series, means your Vehicle Model runs on digital models with high correlation to the real world.