Land Rover Bar: On The Edge

Land Rover BAR is preparing to unveil Britain’s latest America’s Cup racing boat, which uses industry-first aerodynamic testing by Land Rover engineers to exploit and explore new areas of performance gains to make the boat faster through water and the air.

Land Rover’s engineers have worked on the boat’s giant 77ft high wingsail using their understanding of aerodynamics and the computer technology gained on developing cars. The team has created software to explore the dynamic performance of the wingsail, analysing 80 million computational cells in each test, which will seek definitive results to help further performance gains.