Carlin Motorsport set for the next level with PTC

Carlin imports most of its chassis from Dallara Automobili of Italy, a PTC user since 1993. “A major reason for our selection of PTC was its existing relationship with Dallara,” says Trevor Carlin, co-founder and team principal of Carlin. “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, and says it is looking to that investment and its new systems to take its next generation of Carlin race cars to the next level. “This is a purpose-built motorsport facility and gives us the opportunity to move to another level of 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, R&D 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 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 R&D programme to a system we can use for manufacturing and behavioural modelling, and link to enterprise data management and manufacturing systems in the future. PTC fits that bill exactly.”