TECHNOLOGY
RML
AD Group is more than just a race team; it is
a partnership between two of the leading organisations
in their respective fields. On the one hand, RML
is one of the UK's top motorsport and automotive
development organisations with a motor racing
heritage that stretches back more than eighty
years. On the other is AD Group; among the fastest-growing
companies in the UK and one of the world's top
electronics and CCTV development agencies, with
a portfolio of companies that includes Dedicated
Micros, TSS, FlightVu, RemGuard and some half
dozen other subsidiaries.
Included
in the list of RML's clients are some of the biggest
names in the automotive industry, including Chevrolet,
Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Vauxhall and Aston Martin,
but RML has also been responsible for some innovative
ground-up designs of its own. Few realise that
the Saleen S7-R was designed and developed by
RML, or that RML was responsible for transforming
the astonishing Mercedes-Benz SLR Mclaren into
an even more awesome racecar.
Winning
the LMP2 category at Le Mans two years in succession,
and ending 2007 as Le Mans Series LMP2 champions,
are considerable achievements, but they are also
some testament to the skill and ingenuity of RML
and the team behind Mike Newton and Thomas Erdos.
Much
of that credit must go to the years of experience
ingrained within almost every member of the squad,
but along the way there have been breakthroughs
and developments that have, on occasion, given
Tommy and Mike a competitive edge. Some of those
must, of necessity, remain secret, but one or
two technological innovations have been carried
forward by RML and are now marketed under their
X-Pro brand. These are now available to anyone
else, competitors and rivals included, and some
are featured here:
 X-Pro
Digital Imaging Recorder
Throughout the past six years the RML sports prototypes
have carried on board a unique CCTV system. Initially
devised by TransVu, a member of the AD Group of
companies for use as a security monitoring system
for aircraft, buses and other forms of public
transport, the system has now been further developed
and enhanced in association with RML. Tested in
some of the most arduous motorsport conditions
imaginable, the X-Pro DIR was launched in 2006.
Designed specifically around endurance racing
and rallying, this is probably the most advanced
and rugged CCTV system now available anywhere
in the world.
 X-Pro
BSS Safety Seat Inserts
Driver safety is one of the cornerstones
of racecar design. Cocooned within a carbon fibre
monocoque, the driver is protected in a way that
could never have been imagined twenty years ago,
but he or she still remains vulnerable to the
trauma associated with high-G impact and the intensely
physical nature of accidents at speed. The degree
to which those forces can be cushioned is critical
to the driver's chances of surviving such an accident
with the minimum of injury. The X-Pro BSS Seat
Insert has been proven in tests and during real-life
racing incidents to achieve this better than anything
else currently available.
 X-Pro
Infra-Red Tyre Heating System
Having the confidence to push hard right from
the beginning of an out-lap can be crucial to
maintaining track position during an endurance
race, and much of that confidence can come from
knowing that tyres are up to temperature almost
as soon as the car leaves the pitlane. Conventional
tyre-warming technology cannot promise that, but
the X-Pro Infra-Red Tyre Heating System can. Tyres
are up to temperature within ten minutes of being
placed inside the heater, and that warmth is uniform,
deep and perfectly controlled. Compact to transport
and easy to assemble, this is the future of tyre-heating
technology, and it's available today.
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