SAE 2013 World Congress & Exhibition

Wednesday, April 17
Panel Discussion: Does Motor Sports have an Relevance to the Automobile Industry Today?
If so, what is it?
Session Code:
Room M3-32
Chat with the Experts: Motorsports
Session Code:
MSEC100
This is an ongoing question, particularly in the era of tight budgets and intense competition within the industry. Other factors are now in play, such as
the challenging future fuel economy requirements and the ongoing interest in hybrids and electric vehicles. This is compounded by the desire for cost
containment trend within motor sports and the entry of hybrid race cars from both Audi and Toyota in the 2012 Le Mans Endurance race.
Organizers -
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Panelists -
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Mohamed El-Sayed, Kettering Univ.; David A. Finch, Raetech Corp.; Raymond Leto, TotalSim LLC;
Wiley R. McCoy, McLaren Performance Technologies; Thomas N. Ramsay, Honda R&D Americas
Inc.; Michael Royce; J. Kirk Russell, Performance Events Promotion LLC; H. Robert (Bob) Welge,
Robert's Engineering Development
John McElroy, Blue Sky Productions
Jamie Allison, Ford North America Motorsports; Scot Elkins, IMSA; Ralph Gilles, Chrysler Corp.; Robert
Larsen, OboTech. LLC; Pete Spence, Toyota Racing Development USA;
MSECCHAT100
Design of an Actively Controlled Spoiler to Improve High Speed
Vehicle Safety
Yuping He, Univ of Ontario Institute of Technology
Hybridization of a Formula Student/SAE car
Martin Strängberg; Jonathan Rice, Chalmers Univ of Technology; David
Stenman; Håkan Winqvist; Carl Petersson; Martin Holder; Fredrik
Hermansson
Examination of a Properly Restrained Motorsport Occupant
John Patalak, Thomas Gideon, NASCAR; John Melvin, Tandelta
Assessment of Ear- and Tooth-Mounted Accelermeters as
Representative of Human Head Response (Written Only -- No Oral
Presentation)
Extended Steady State Lap Time Simulation for Analysing Transient
Vehicle Behaviour (Written Only -- No Oral Presentation)
Planned by Motorsports Engineering Activity / EMB Land and Sea Group
Planned by Motorsports Engineering Activity / EMB Land and Sea Group
John J. Christopher, Mark R. Sochor, U.Va. Center for Applied
Biomechanics; Joseph Pellettiere, Federal Aviation Administration; Robert
Scott Salzar, U.Va. Center for Applied Biomechanics
Timo Völkl, Martin Muehlmeier, Audi AG; Hermann Winner, Technische
Universitat Darmstadt
Session Time:
Wednesday, April 17
2:00 p.m.
Preliminary Information
Inclusion of a paper title in this preliminary program does not indicate acceptance of the manuscript. Final technical paper selections
expected by January 18, 2013 and the schedule will be finalized by January 25, 2013.
Preliminary Information
Session Time:
4:00 p.m.