Spirent and Aston Martin Racing continue technical partnership

Connected car verification systems provider Spirent Communications is to continue its technical partnership with Aston Martin Racing throughout the 2016 World Endurance Championship season. Spirent is working with Aston Martin Racing during testing to evaluate automotive technologies on the 2016 V8 Vantage GTE race cars, such as the accuracy and performance of GPS receivers and interference monitoring.
May 4, 2016 Read time: 1 min

Connected car verification systems provider 8240 Spirent Communications is to continue its technical partnership with 7996 Aston Martin Racing throughout the 2016 World Endurance Championship season.

Spirent is working with Aston Martin Racing during testing to evaluate automotive technologies on the 2016 V8 Vantage GTE race cars, such as the accuracy and performance of GPS receivers and interference monitoring.

The ability to capture real world GPS receiver signals during testing and replay the data in simulated track scenarios gives Aston Martin Racing a unique perspective on their GPS signal performance accuracy before arriving at race events.

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