Tag: pianificazione

Jim Hall (fondatore della Chaparall) ha sempre evidenziato come tutto il processo per lo sviluppo dell’innovazione del leggendario marchio fosse frutto di un metodico lavoro ‘a tavolino’ che poi veniva testato in pista. Nel periodo in cui la Chaparall sviluppo’ novità radicali nel contesto della dinamica del veicolo da competizione (anni sessanta) fu questo il metodo che fece la differenza rispetto a case costruttrici concorrenti che avevano un’impostazione ingegneristica ancora troppo artigianale. Grazie a questo metodo la Chaparall tracciò i fondamentali di molti sviluppi aerodinamici tutt’ora utilizzati.

Il tema e’ approfondito nell’edizione internazionale del libro di prossima pubblicazione.

Jim Hall:

It’s Chaparral and my own career. It’s a little more scientific. I was a mechanical engineer, a graduate engineer. And I started racing after well, actually during college.

But that’s when my career was, after I had the degree. And so I applied what I’d learned to what I was doing.

And as I said, I made a point of trying to understand the control and stability of cars. And so it was some trial and error for sure. But usually it was a plan.

We had a plan and a theory, and I went after it to see if I could prove it. And did a lot of measurement actually.

Had a test track right there where I could run. And it was very useful. That’s probably an advantage that we had during those days.

I could just go out and run during the mornings, say, and then come back in and make some changes, go back out in the evening and check it.

Where I think a lot of teams we were racing against in the ’60s didn’t have that capability.