Tire modelling guru Professor Pacejka pays a visit to Cruden

Legendary academic drives his own Pacejka tire model 6.0 in a GT3 race car on a Cruden Hexatech 6-DOF motion simulator.AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands – Renowned vehicle system and tyre dynamics expert, Professor Hans Bastiann Pacejka (80), paid a special visit to Cruden in April. The Professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology in Delft (Netherlands) drove a few laps of the Zandvoort circuit in a GT3 Porsche model developed by Cruden, on one of the company’s 6-DOF Hexatech motion simulators. Despite being the name behind the ‘magic formula’ which defines the tire models relied upon