The vehicle converter There s a reason for the broad smile on Timo Haug s face His job has taken him to the place to which his private passion attracts him too the race track Haug is an avid kart driver and motorsport fan His job at Schaeffler Paravan has now resulted in a private and professional overlap On the job the 38 year old equips vehicles for people with disabilities with Schaeffler Paravan s drive by wire technology Space Drive In addition Haug develops customized Space Drive solutions for prototypes from microcars to trucks for client projects All in all a highly varied field of work that in 2018 was extended by a very attractive facet a race car with Space Drive To demonstrate the capabilities of the technology on the one hand and to gain further development input from using the system at the passenger cars trucks vans and other commercial vehicles have been equipped with Space Drive to date plus an approved race car was claimed by ex Formula One driver Markus Winkelhock in the Space Drive Audi from Schaeffler Paravan in the DMV GTC s final race 8 500 Position 4 Personal meets professional passion limit on the other Schaeffler Paravan converted an Audi R8 LMS into a steer by wire race car The steering column was removed and a force feedback steering wheel operating with electrical impulses installed Timo Haug was involved in the project from day one The innovative race car was the first of its kind to be approved by the German Motorsport Association DSMB and competed in the DMV GTC series For four races Timo Haug switched from the production hall in the southern German town of Aichelau to the garages at race tracks like Nürburgring and Hockenheimring It s exciting to keep developing this system under these extreme conditions he says When the car raced past us at 250 km h 155 mph for the first time without a steering column that was a real goose bump moment Whether on the grid or in the pit lane Timo Haug is engaged in constant exchange with the race driver to obtain as much detailed feedback as possible It s fed into the further development of Space Drive 26

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