“In 2019, NASCAR began engineering a new Next Gen car design, with an ambitious goal of launching it in 2022. When the pandemic closed our physical facilities, we had to rely entirely on engineering simulation. Ansys LS-DYNA, supported by the flexible capacity of Ansys Cloud, enabled NASCAR to efficiently conduct many computationally intensive crash simulations. Not only did these cloud-hosted product studies accelerate our efforts and enable us to meet our launch date, but they also saved enormous costs by eliminating physical prototypes and crash tests. Without the combination of Ansys LS-DYNA and Ansys Cloud, I’m not sure the Next Gen car would have been ready for the 2022 season.” John Probst Senior Vice President, Racing Innovation / NASCAR Ansys + NASCAR CASE STUDY / Racing

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