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iOpener Enabled
Welcome to the future of gaming! The cutting-edge “iOpener Enabled” feature initialises the next generation of games, starting with car racing! By creating a link between the virtual and the real world gamers are able to feel what it is like to be part of a real race!
Have you ever dreamt of racing live against your favourite professional race driver?
The iOpener enabled feature makes it possible for gamers to race in REAL-TIME against the REAL drivers in REAL cars on the REAL tracks.
Gamers can choose between racing live against drivers on race tracks and racing in a stored modus of previously held races that have been recorded.
The iOpener Enabled feature is not limited to only racing! It is also aimed at wide range of other game genres, all the way from flight simulators to cycling.
This technology has already been identified by leading motorsports executives such as former FIA president Max Mosley and F1 boss Ecclestone as a future impact on bringing racing closer to the fans and thereby creating a whole new wave of energy for the racing communities.
EBC Brakes
Founded in 1978, the EBC Brakes Group is still a private company owned exclusively by the current managing director Andy Freeman.
Premium quality EBC brake pads and rotors for cars, trucks, motorcycles, is our business …. all made in the UK. EBC Brakes manufactures the world’s largest range of disc brake pads. EBC Brakes forms part of the Freeman Automotive Group, based in Northampton, UK.
With business commencing in 1978, the company has grown from an importer distributing products from a single van to a multi-national group employing over 400 staff with manufacturing in three countries and worldwide sales in excess of $100 million.
The product range comprises brake discs and disc brake pads for motorcycles, all terrain vehicles (ATV or Quads), mountain bikes, go karts (or shifter karts) and automobiles.
K&N Air Filters
K&N Engineering, of Riverside, California, is the inventor and leading innovator of reusable cotton gauze filter technology for automotive applications. From humble beginnings as a family run business over 35 years ago, K&N Engineering, now a truly global company with offices in the U.K. and the Netherlands, continues to exist as a family owned business with an enthusiast mindset and a direct connection with motor sports that carries over throughout all levels of management and manufacturing.
Today, K&N exists as both the sales and brand leader for performance filters, and maintains a stocking catalogue of over 3,500 part numbers, including an extensive line of both factory replacement drop-in filters, FIPK (Fuel Injection Performance Kit) applications, and its line of innovative Performance Gold oil filters.
Eibach Springs
“The Will to Win” is a great way of describing the Eibach product philosophy. The main aspect of Eibach Suspension Components is a noticeable improvement to the driving characteristics – the basis for being a winner – brought to you directly from Motorsport. Of secondary importance is the enhanced sporty look you get from a lowered vehicle. This is where Eibach stand out from other suppliers: the vehicle’s centre of gravity is only lowered as far as is technically practical. You will not find extreme tuning here: at Eibach, performance and handling, therefore the joy of driving, are the priorities. All products are developed, manufactured and tested by the company itself. This is the only way to 100% fulfil the high demands set by both you the customer, and the company.
Performance for Motorsport and Street Performance
For years, Eibach clientelle has included almost all the teams from the worlds of Formula 1, the Rally World Championship, NASCAR, CART and the Touring Car World Championship. There are almost no race series at either national or international level in which the teams and drivers are not aware and familiar with Eibach Racing Sport products and their high standards. Eibach develop, test and produce for the greatest tuners – globally. There is an active exchange of information with clients and manufacture is to their special wishes and specifications. Special series, special developments, sporty accessories – Eibac supply products in original equipment quality and ensure “top performance ex-works”. Experience the perfect solution when it comes to quality, performance, handling and the joy of driving. Experience suspension technology for the ultimate in demands.
Recaro
The seat manufacturer RECARO celebrates the company’s 100th birthday in Stuttgart, April 2006.
The success story of the present RECARO company began in 1906 in Stuttgart, as the 32-year old saddler master Wilhelm Reutter founded the company “Reutter, Wilhelm, Saddler. Spezialitat: Luxus- und Motorwagen, englische Geschirre” (Specialities: Luxury and Motor Vehicles, English Ware). Reutter quickly made a name for itself in the up-and-coming automobile industry which was largely positioned in Stuttgart: Bosch, Maybach and Daimler were the big names which wrote history and laid the building blocks for the present location of mobility, Stuttgart.
The business of the saddler master flourished, and in 1910 the company signed with the firm name “Stuttgarter Karosseriewerk Reutter & Co” (Stuttgart Coach Factory of Reutter & Co). The young saddler master was innovative and open to new mobility. In his workshop in 1912, the patented Reutter Reform Coach was produced, which later was called the Cabriolet.
Reutter produced coaches for Daimler-Benz, Horch, and companies that have long been forgotten. Not to be forgotten were other icons of the automobile industry with whom Reutter was closely involved.
Professor Ferdinand Porsche had the prototypes of the VW Beetle constructed by Reutter. Also, after the war, the Porsche and Reutter companies worked closely together. The coach company Reutter became famous worldwide with the Porsche 356. Reutter was also active for BMW and the German Postal Service. The coach for the BMW 328 sports car was also produced by Reutter as well as coaches designed to meet the needs of the Postal Service.
The foundation for the present company was laid in 1963, as RECARO was formed as a play on words – Reutter and CAROsserien (coaches). The first RECARO sport seat was introduced in 1965, and in motor racing, the company quickly became a recognized brand name.
In 1969 RECARO joined with the Keiper company. Even today RECARO operates with headquarters in Kirchheim as an independent member within the internationally active Keiper Recaro Group, active worldwide in a total of 16 locations.
The spirit of the driven, innovative and creative company founder Wilhelm Reutter, appear to also be reflected in the production of automobile seats. In 1965, RECARO introduced the first seat worldwide with a lateral guide, and in 1968 the first seat worldwide with an adjustable shoulder support was introduced onto the market. RECARO redefined sitting in the automobile. Until then, seats in automobiles more closely resembled home seating, not offering any side support. Thus RECARO began a new age. The designers from RECARO entered into discussions with researchers from medicine, ergonomics, and biomechanics. There were crash tests, and the limits of loads on the human body were defined.
From this close and ever more intensive collaboration with universities and specialized physicians, a store of knowledge and experience was collected by RECARO which is surely unique worldwide. RECARO had answered the questions “How should people sit?” and “How is the body correctly supported?” early on:
1971 RECARO introduced the first seat with integrated seatbelt
1973 RECARO introduced a full shell made of sheet steel as a seat structure
1977 The track-breaking innovation in ergonomics was introduced with pneumatic lumbar support
1984 The first vehicle seat with bracing on both sides was introduced
1991 RECARO introduced a vehicle seat with asymmetrical adjustment as a worldwide innovation
1996 was the introduction of the first racing shell with head protection
2004 The lightest serially-produced seat in the world at that time was brought onto the market as the carbon shell seat of the Porsche Carrera GT
From Saddler Master to Global Player, RECARO, relocated in 1973 from the tight spaces of Augustenstraße in Stuttgart to Kirchheim, had positioned itself worldwide as the partner in the automobile industry who fulfilled the most difficult demands and who continues to re-invent the mobile seat through revolutionary innovations. Today, RECARO is the exclusive supplier for the top models of Porsche, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi, Opel, Ford, and Volkswagen. The hybrid lightweight seat developed by RECARO was adopted in series production for the VW Golf R 32 and the Audi RS 4.
At the Geneva Automobile Show in the beginning of March 2006, RECARO, in collaboration with the Swiss company Rinspeed, presented a prototype for an automobile seat made of a gel mass, which conforms perfectly to the body and perhaps one day will also be a reality. In the near future, RECARO appears to have a seat in development which will automatically adapt to any person, regardless if he is short, tall, thin or heavy, and always travels in the correct position. This is no longer a utopia, instead, it is the unceasing development of many ideas from many years of research – the path from vision to reality is no longer far.
