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News Release from: PTC - Parametric Technology (UK)
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Team on 22 March 2007
Motorsport CAD agreement signed
Pro/Engineer Wildfire, PTC's 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, will be used exclusively in the development of the next generation of Carlin race cars.
PTC has signed a three-year performance partnership agreement with Carlin Motorsport, one of the most successful independent motorsport company in the UK outside Formula One Pro/Engineer Wildfire, PTC's 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software, will be used exclusively in the development of the next generation of Carlin race cars
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Carlin competes in five championships - Formula BMW, British Formula Three, Formula Renault, World series by Renault and A1GP.
Carlin has a reputation for finding and developing young drivers and several of its former drivers have moved on to success in Formula One, including Takuma Sato, Anthony Davidson, Narain Karthikeyan, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica, Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel.
Carlin imports the majority of its chassis from Dallara Automobili of Italy, a PTC user since 1993.
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"A major reason for our selection of PTC was its existing relationship with Dallara", says Trevor Carlin, co-founder and Team Principal of Carlin Motorsport.
"We recognise that Pro/Engineer played a major role in the success of Dallara, and because we work so closely with Dallara we felt it could only add to our success and the success of our collaborative relationship to be able to exchange design data in the same format".
The Carlin team recently purchased the Brabham F1 factory at Chessington, Surrey in the UK.
"This is a purpose-built motorsport facility and gives us the opportunity to move to another level of motorsport design and manufacturing", says Carlin.
"We now have our own wind tunnel and in-house manufacturing capability and will be able to design and make more of our components as well as do design consulting, RandD and manufacturing for other automotive and motorsport companies".
Pro/Engineer Wildfire will be at the centre of the development of future Carlin race cars.
"We have previously used CAD and solid modeling", says Carlin.
"But now that we are moving to new premises, we have the opportunity to expand and develop our RandD programme to a system we can use for manufacturing, behavioural modeling and link to enterprise data management and manufacturing systems in the future - PTC fits that bill exactly".
"Although Carlin is a very young motorsport operation, it is a very successful one, having already developed a strong reputation for success in the UK, Europe and around the world in a short time", says Paul Haimes, Northern European Technical Director, PTC.
"PTC Performance Partners are valuable to PTC and all PTC customers because they place high demands on our software: they tend to use a significant percentage of the functionality and also have extreme performance, time to market and collaboration pressures".
"We look forward to putting our solutions to the test as Carlin develops a totally new factory and manufacturing facility and continues its path of rapid expansion".
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