Last Friday was a very
busy and interesting day for InMotion. One thing we learned is that the new
twitter logo is actually Batman, another thing we know now is why Renault F1
became world champion in 2006 and Ferrari didn’t. But more on that later in this,
first an introduction to this blog and a small explanation about the what and
why behind it.
So, a blog from
InMotion, what can you expect from it? Short stories and experiences told by
the team-members. For example stories about the development of the car, related
technologies and of course the fun stuff in the team! We will try to give a
little inside view in what it is to be part of a project like InMotion.
Furthermore we will explain groundbreaking technologies and innovations in the
area of motorsport in an understandable way.
It should be kind of
clear from this point on what to expect from our blog. If not, you can always
mail us! So, back to Batman!
"Why
Batman?!", one might ask... Believe it or not, but it has come to our
attention that the new logo recently announced by #Twitter is actually Batman (evidence
in the following link, sorry but it’s only in Dutch, but you can check the
images anyway: http://goo.gl/m8leh). This is
of course not something we came up with ourselves. In this case our first
meeting with Herman Couwenbergh (@Hermaniak) was the trigger. Luckily
this was not the only positive thing we picked up from this meeting. Herman is
an expert when it comes to social media, and this meeting was focused on the
way InMotion will use these social media in order to reach you (and possibly
other readers as well). We as InMotion really want to tell our story to the
world. Herman asked us why we were not keeping a blog. Well, here it is! ;)
"And what about Step 11 then?",
might the next question be. Since Herman was not the only person we met this Friday,
we learned some more than only Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook. The meeting
with the second person was special, really special. Especially for a team of
highly driven students who dream of a job in the Formula 1 someday.
Meet Peter Wezenbeek.
This guy was one of the four engineers (Control systems engineer) working on
the car of Fernando Alonso, during his glory-period at the Renault F1 team.
With this driver he took two consecutive world titles in the Formula 1. Was
this because Alonso was so much better than Schumacher? Since Friday we believe
that this is not entirely the case. It might also have to do with the control
system in the car of Alonso, called Step 11 (http://goo.gl/V2ymz).
This system was used by the Renault F1 team that year, while Ferrari still used
the much older Step 10. That, and a lot more nice inside information, was the
subject of the one hour meeting that we as InMotion had with Peter. Of course
we also introduced him to our project, and luckily he was very enthusiastic! He
offered to support us where possible and we exchanged some future ideas.
If you want to see more about InMotion, be sure to check out: http://inmotion.tue.nl
