Overview
Virtex Simulation offers high-fidelity simulation toolsets designed by motorsport engineers for race team preparation. The company partners with Dynisma to provide next-generation simulator hardware featuring customizable cockpits and real-world equipment with latency as low as 3-4ms.
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- Every simulator runs on a vehicle model, and its value depends on how closely that model behaves like the real car. We build ours in-house. Each component is parameterised from design data, rig testing and track telemetry. The model is then compared with what the real car does on track and with what the driver feels, and refined session after session. Run, analyse, refine, run again. A model is never finished: it's an engineering loop, and it's what makes a simulator session worth taking to the track. Our vehicle dynamics team brings
- Where can we test, and how? In single-seaters, testing is highly limited. In GT, it becomes very restricted once the season starts. The simulator adds the running the calendar leaves out: your own car, on any circuit you need, at the time you choose. No red flags, no traffic and no weather you didn't ask for, with up to 200 laps a day in some sessions. It doesn't replace the track day. It's what you add to it.
- A test day involves much more than time on track. Before any running there's transport, logistics, the car, tyres, the crew… On the day, weather and red flags eat into whatever time is left. In the simulator, the whole session goes into the work. It doesn't replace track testing. It makes every session on track count for more, because the groundwork is already done when the car rolls out.
- Between rounds, the circuit goes quiet. The preparation for the next one doesn't. Every round is prepared in the weeks before it: the model correlated, setups tested and references set, before the car reaches the track.
- The season is raced on weekends, but it's prepared in the weeks between them. Between rounds, drivers rarely get to choose when they go on track. Sometimes the circuit isn't available, sometimes a testing ban rules it out. A single simulator session fills that gap: the team correlates the model, tests new setups and prepares the next race weekend, in one place and on its own schedule. Over the winter, that work builds the baseline. During the season, it prepares each round. Build your programme: https://lnkd.in/eAcXsiCj
- Our founder and CEO Julien Gillard joined C dans la boîte on Trends-Tendances to talk about the journey behind Virtex. In the interview, he looks back on his professional experience and explains the decision to build an engineering-grade simulation company at Spa-Francorchamps. He also covers the milestones that have shaped Virtex so far, including our partners such as Circuit of Spa Francorchamps s.a., the launch of our latest offerings, and where we are heading next as simulation becomes a structural part of how teams and drivers
- A season's work pays off in Madrid, and the tracks you can't just go and test.
- We are hiring a Head of Business Development. As Virtex continues to grow, we are looking for a driven and motivated professional with a real passion for the industry to lead our commercial development and expand our presence across professional motorsport. Based at heart of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, you will work directly with our Founder & CEO, own the commercial pipeline from first contact to signature, and help build and shape Virtex’s commercial function. Interested in joining us? Read the full job description below
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