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Karting World Championship 2015
10-13, September, 2015
Karting is considered to be the first stepping stone for young drivers aspiring to reach the highest levels of motor sport, or simply hoping for a career as a racing driver.
While the vast majority of current (and past) F1 drivers came from Karting, it has grown racing talents that populate a wide variety of racing disciplines, such as the FIA World Endurance Championship, which is the basis of the 24 Hours of Le Mans classic each June.
D4S Motorsport decided to give a closer look at the discipline, and, as usual, exploit the opportunity to tests some technical advanced solutions, like a nanocomposite damping coating and some special components, in collaboration with the Spanish Team Jamkart.
The event was held at the extraordinary “Le Mans Karting International.”
Nearly 200 drivers descend on Le Mans, no doubt drawn by the prospect of competing at Le Mans.
They were representing a remarkable 42 countries and did battle in front of a big crowd that will include FIA President Jean Todt.
D4S Motorsport participated with Segio Duranter in the KZ, which is the advanced category for gearbox karts – it was previously called Super ICC and KZ1. Since its inception in 2010, KZ has attracted some of the most promising young drivers before they take the next step to single-seater racing.
Rally WRC Stars at Ice Series 2016
Friday, 23, October, 2015
Everything is under frenetic preparation in D4S Motorsport factories for the next 2016 winter Ice Series International Championship. The incredible prototype based on the WRC Citroen DS3 is actually collecting all the latest racing technologies as nanotechnology surface engineering, additive manufacturing made D4S Motorsport titanium sequential gearbox, lithium batteries and Inconel exhausts, and a full composites body.
960 Kg, 450 HP, four wheel drive. Such an advanced technologies will be hardly tested by an exceptional famous driver, the WRC star Armin Schwarz that will share the driving wheel with the other D4S Motorsport top drivers in the most important races of the 2016 Championship.
Sustainable automotive technology
Friday, 23, October, 2015
The Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is a methodology for the assessment of the environmental and economical impact of products, usually considering their whole life cycle: production, use phase and end of life. The analysis is conducted taking into account technical boundaries (technical feasibility).
The LCE is structured by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC), devoted to the respectively of the environmental impact assessment and the economical impact assessment.
Even if for some people this will look quite strange, the Motorsport sector is one of the most advanced sector in the sustainability and environmental awareness. This is why the continue research of performance and efficiency in engineering terms means continuous looking for fuel consumption reduction and use of advanced and often precious and expensive materials that should be 100% recycled or reused at the end of life. A proof of that is the fact the winning cars in the Le Mans Series, probably the best bench for innovation, are the most advanced hybrid cars even conceived and made on the Earth. Same is the F1.
In D4S Motorsport we are deeply convinced about the strategic advantage we are giving to our products through specific sustainability methodologies and analysis. We have experience on sustainability analysis since 1995.
We would spend a couple of words concerning the capability to conduct a serious LC analysis. One of the key phase to carry out a correct LC analysis is the “interpretation of the results”, where the industrial experience and technical background of the engineers are still playing the main role. Without the correct sensitivity that only trained personnel from well established industries, that grew their experience in years of tests and experiments, success and failures, it is not possible to carry out a sustainability analysis in the most effective and serious way. So even if you have the best software available in the market, but you don’t know deeply the process you are analyzing, it is quite hard you will get serious results. It is exactly the same situation of having a state of the art FEM software and trying to design a racecar or an airplane without having ever done it before. The result will have high probability to be a disaster.
This is why we consider LCA and LCC analysis a serious matter and we are constantly improving our experiences and skills with a daily comparison between numerical and experimental results.