BMW (and RTEMS) celebrating first win at Superbike World Championship

[Joel Sherrill]

Thank you for sharing this Thomas. I wish more users
shared their good news, product announcements, papers,
etc.

It turns out that the Salt Lake City race will be on Speed TV
at 5pm EST on May 28.  We actually have that channel. :)

On 05/17/2012 02:01 AM, Thomas Doerfler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> last sunday BMW Motorrad Motorsport made a double win on the Superbike
> World Championship race in Donington/England. In the first race, Marco
> Melandri and Leon Haslam made it to the top two positions of the podium.
> In the second race, they were ahead of their competitors again until
> they colided and slipped off the track in the last corner of the race.
>
> http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/5-sbk-news/13229-bmw-celebrate-landmark-wsb-victory.html
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tD8hPhK_74
>
> http://www.worldsbk.com/en/news/5-sbk-news/13223-incredible-drama-as-rea-wins-and-other-top-riders-go-out.html
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUDV6rbxruU
>
> What does it all have to do with RTEMS? Optimizing the engine control
> unit behaviour for the race is vital to provide the best performance for
> the driver. BMW therefore developed a high speed data logger to collect
> more than 2MByte/sec of data for performance analysis. This data logger
> is using RTEMS to achive optimum real time behaviour and optimum speed
> during data storage and recovery.
>
> So surely RTEMS on its own did not win the race, but contributed its
> share to the success story. I think this is something we all can be
> proud of.
>
> The next race of the Superbike World championship will take place on 28.
> May in Salt Lake City. We are keeping our fingers crossed for the team
> to win again.
>
> wkr,
>
> Thomas.
>


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