Dromo Uses VI-Road to increase safety of race tracks

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News - 29 February

Marburg, Feb 29th, 2012 – VI-grade GmbH, the leading provider of best-in-class
products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical
simulation, today announced that Italy-based Dromo, a development enterprise
specialized in racetracks and motor structures, selected VI-Road, VI-grade’s software
solution for three-dimensional performance road design, to redesign and optimize
racetracks for an optimal combination of safety and entertainment.

With a proven twelve years experience through the greatest organizations and facilities all
around the world, Dromo is working on projects involving national and international
partners to develop modern, functional and safe structures, using the most advanced
know-how in motorsport and official FIA, FIK and FIM regulations. In particular, Dromo
is using VI-Road in conjunction with the custom developed software DroCAS™ to
simulate and optimize the layout of the Italian racetrack in Imola, Mugello and the new
Termas de Rio Hondo racetrack in Argentina, that will host MotoGP from 2013 on.

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“Safety is the primary racetrack design concern since the dawn of the motorsport era:
designers need to minimize the risk of racetracks during competitions, ensuring at the
same time that the race is characterized by the highest level of entertainment”, says Jarno
Zaffelli, Dromo. “Dromo’s approach to circuit design brings back the old school of road
design, proven to be more difficult to do especially with the CAD software available today.
But with modern software solutions and state-of-the-art technologies like VI-Road, it is
today possible to simulate vehicle dynamics and behavior of race cars, designing and
assessing motorsport circuits in order to increase safety, decreasing at the same time
racetrack realization costs and maintenance costs.”

“We are excited about the application of our VI-Road technology at Dromo,” says Guido
Bairati, Sales Director, VI-grade. “This demonstrates the efficiency of our software that
can be used components of custom-specific solutions for redesigning and optimizing race
tracks.”

About VI-Road
VI-Road is the specialized software for three-dimensional road design from VI-grade. VI-
Road enables to prepare accurate road data files for vehicle, motorcycle and aircraft
simulations, using analytical descriptions as well as experimental measurements for a
very realistic mapping of real-life road profiles and race tracks. VI-Road additionally
supports a series of advanced capabilities, such as the possibility of modeling kerbs and of
specifying variable friction coefficients and track disturbances. Thanks to an embedded
solver, VI-Road enables to estimate the static limit speed profile for a given vehicle on a
specified trajectory. VI-Road is compatible with other VI-grade products, such as VI-
Driver, VI-Animator and VI-DriveSim. For additional information, please visit www.vi-
grade.com.

About Dromo

Dromo (Applied Italian Circuit Design) is a development enterprise specialized in

racetracks and motor structures. With a proven twelve years experience through the
greatest organizations and facilities all around the world, is working on projects involving
national and international partners to develop modern, functional and safe structures,
using the most advanced know-how in motorsport and official FIA, FIK and FIM
regulations. For additional information, please visit: http://www.studiodromo.it

The VI-grade Logo and all VI-grade product names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of VI-grade GmbH

The Dromo and DroCAS™ logo are trademarks or registered trademarks property of
Jarno Zaffelli

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