Formula One: Virgin signs a deal with McLaren

It will see the Anglo-Russian team benefit from access to McLaren facilities, knowledge and capabilities

BERLIN: Marussia Virgin Racing team has concluded a long-term Technical Partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies which will see the Anglo-Russian team benefit from access to McLaren facilities, knowledge and capabilities, for example their test rigs and driver-in-the-loop simulator, supply chain experience and CFD and CAE techniques including race strategy tools. There was a similar deal with Force India in the past but this seems to have evaporated of late. The team has given up on the idea of using only CFD to develop its cars and will now use the McLaren wind tunnel.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 5^th, 2011.