Esteemed controls and race engineer, Ramiro Garcia, joins Cruden as project manager
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Cruden, the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of professional, full motion race simulators, has hired experienced Formula 1, GP2 and Indy Car engineer Ramiro Garcia (43) to join its Amsterdam-based team, as project manager.
Garcia brings relevant experience in control systems and race engineering to support Cruden’s growing professional motorsport business. He has held previous positions at Sauber and Hispania Racing Team in F1, Ocean Racing Technology and Piquet Sports in GP2 and Hogan Racing in CART. As part of Cruden’s project management team, Garcia is responsible for leading and managing simulator projects and installations as well as ongoing technical matters for customers in the attractions, professional motorsports, R&D and training markets.
“Due to the interest from the professional motorsport and automotive market, not only in our simulators, but also our simulator components and the software side, we are expanding,” says Frank Kalff, Cruden’s commercial director. “Ramiro brings recent, first hand experience of dealing with the technical issues around simulation that concern race teams at all levels, and this makes our offer even more relevant.”
Garcia’s first project is to work alongside the simulation team of an automotive OEM to create a full simulator package, integrated with the customer’s own vehicle models, to be used for production car development.
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About Cruden
Cruden is the world’s leading designer and manufacturer of professional, interactive, motion-based racing simulators. The company develops the most high tech, realistic and accurate professional equipment for the top levels of international motorsport, including Formula One, as well as vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers. The same package is then made available to the global attractions market and to private individuals to create a motorsport experience which simply does not compare with ‘games’ machines on the market. Cruden’s heritage is in the development of professional simulators for the aerospace, marine and automotive industries. Originating from Fokker Aircraft Company, the company was FCS Racing Simulation before becoming Cruden in 2006. www.cruden.com
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