As one of his final acts as Ford’s president and CEO, Alan Mulally signed the check to upgrade the company’s humble Charlotte, North Carolina, NASCAR support center—affectionately known as the shack—to a lavish new facility conveniently located next door to NASCAR’s own R&D center in Concord, North Carolina. This one sparkling 33,000-square-foot building will serve several Ford Racing purposes—and we got a tour of the place and the cool gear inside.
"Ansible Motion, the same vendor that helped build McLaren’s simulator, collaborated with Ford on this project. Ford claims its sled has lower latency (delay reacting to commands) and higher frequency response than Honda’s new simulator, which uses a so-called “hexapod” configuration of six motor-driven ball-screw legs to provide motion."
