Depends entirely on the team really. Last year with WIN in P2 (and the year before in P3), we were doing some engineering work but nothing too in depth (I'd prepared a test program and the team planned to allocate some budget towards the sim so we could go further with it, but they ultimately disbanded at the end of the season). This year with the P2 in both IMSA and WEC, it's fully driver focused. Still developing the models towards engineering spec (since that helps driver training as well), but there's no budget allocated from the teams for additional testing, and now that the team owner is not the same person as the client, we're less integrated with the teams.Been meaning to ask, are you able to share what sort of capacity you're working with these teams at? My guess is helping with simulation physics for driver practice, but I feel like there's more to it than that!
Congrats, man!
But we've had now 4 prospective clients in the past year that have intended to use the sim for engineering. 3 of those 4 fell through (various reasons; lack of budget approval, poor team management, etc). Still working on the other.
We're pretty full-service though. If you sign on as a season client, we try to take care of whatever. e.g. I designed and built a new sim rig a few months ago that's 1:1 (as far as ergonomics go) with the real car. Working on new motion code for that sim as well (though that's pretty long term; the dev kit sucks). Tracks, cars, driver coaching, part sourcing; we handle a lot.
In the future we'll be selling software as well, but that's a few years off.
