Ola Werring
Mechanical engineering. Suspension design and vehicle testing. MEng, University of Bath. Formula Student and junior single-seater motorsport.
CURRENTLY: Designing a brake bedding inertia dynamometer at Van Amersfoort Racing, Zeewolde. Updated 2026-08-29.
Case studies
Brake bedding inertia dynamometer
A single-corner inertia dynamometer that beds steel discs and pads off the car, to a controlled schedule rather than on track. Designed end to end: the fidelity argument, the sizing chain from the tyre up, instrumentation, controls and the safety case. Whether VAR build it is their decision; if they do, jointly with the test team.
CFRP suspension pushrods
Steel to carbon across the car's four pushrods, 1.482 kg down to 0.419 kg. Bespoke load tooling, laminate FE carried against the test data, and a bonded joint sized for the load case rather than the catalogue.
Single-motor ball launcher
One 12 V motor drives firing, aiming and feeding. The aiming cam is carried on the body it controls, so the profile came out of kinematic inversion. My scope: the aiming mechanism, the cam profile and the gearbox, against an 85 pound component cap.
Trackside engineering
Two race weekends with a professional Carrera Cup team, assisting on the tyre programme and watching it run: cold pressures to target, inner, middle and outer temperatures on the in-lap, bleed-down against ambient drift, allocation planned across the weekend. A field log of how a professional weekend runs, not a design project.
Shorter works
In-hub epicyclic gearbox
Ratio selection, bearing arrangement and tolerancing for a wheel-hub planetary reduction.
Charging trolley, design-to-stock build
Fixed footprint, built from what the lab held. An exercise in judging where drawing effort adds value.