Volkswagen Motorsport India has partnered with Wheels India Limited to develop India’s fastest touring car the TC4-A Vento. During initial testing the TC4-A Vento achieved a benchmark lap time of 1.07.892 at Kari Motor Speedway. Wheels India have designed and developed this wheel in-house at their forged alloy manufacturing facility in Chennai.
The forged alloy wheels has the benefit of a stronger structural rigidity with an un-sprung weight benefit of about 1.5 to 2 kilograms per wheel over a standard cast wheel. This is achieved as the grain structure of the material for a forged alloy wheel is denser than a cast alloy wheel which results in better strength and lower weight.
Sirish Vissa, Head of Volkswagen Motorsport India said, “Our race machines are constantly evolving and team is always looking for ways to improve the dynamics of our race cars. The addition of the forged wheel has had a considerable impact on weight savings and this in turn has been a major performance upgrade. With further calibration we expect to improve performance in the future.”
The Volkswagen Motorsport team validated the result achieved on the test bench by running the car on the track with a wheel instrumented with load measurement and telemetry, so the data can be logged in real time and in real world conditions. The team achieved an excellent correlation between real world conditions and the test and simulation data.
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