Triple Eight Racing Takes the Checkered Flag with AMD FireGL™ 

The Need for Speed

With four British Touring Car Championships (BTCC) wins in the last four years, getting to the finish line first has quickly become a tradition for Triple Eight Race Engineering. As the leading British racing team sets its sites on both the BTCC and the Australia Supercar Championship in 2005, it intends to maintain its winning ways with help from AMD’s FireGL™ graphics accelerators.

Given the margin for victory at the track is measured in mere hundredths of a second, Triple Eight Race Engineering is constantly looking for better ways to design, engineer and assemble its championship Vauxhall VX racing cars. Adding AMD’s FireGL™ graphics cards to its high-tech toolbox of 15 Inventor-based CAD workstations this year was the obvious choice in the team’s ongoing quest for better 3D rendering, speed and reliability, according to Chief Designer John Morton.

“Our workstations are very high-spec but limitations have arisen in the past on the graphics side. We constantly strive to improve our graphics capabilities and we’ve really done that with AMD’s new AMD FireGL workstation cards, which are giving us much more reliability than we had with competitor’s cards,” says Morton from the team’s headquarters in Greatworth, Banbury, England.