Meet the People
The man behind the program
Programs have a nasty habit of not writing themselves, requiring some unfortunate soul to spend some estimated 1000 hours
researching, learning, designing, programming, testing, bug-fixing and documenting this piece of work, plus creating this website.
And that soul is me, Ben Ponsford.
I have no formal training in vehicle mechanics, this project has been born out of interest in my part, no doubt my A Level in Physics has been helpful understanding things, plus my computing degree where I learnt the basics of programming has obviously proved essential.
I have also created another website which covers my work not directly related to VHPA. Visit www.thefloatingwidget.net.
The contributors
While the entire project is my own work, I won't deny that I haven't received a little help on occasion.
Recognised here are the people that, in their own way, have helped:
- Karl Southern - private beta testing and feedback on early development versions
- Daniel Monzert - reported and helped test fixes for a regional settings bug
- Todd Wasson - helpful thoughts for the acceleration modelling loop
- Petr Čejka - 3D model and render of gearstick and feedback throughout development
- Scawen Roberts - creating the LFS .bin data outputs and supplying tyre physics code excerpts
- Christian Jelinek - tyre heat testing and data gathering
- Colin Cobb - suspension and steering analysis spreadsheet package
- Dennis Palatov - vehicle data for his car, the Random Research DP1
- Jani Ervast - balance diagram idea
- Anton Tcholakov - maths help for engine torque curves
The translators
Among my many talents, speaking a multitude of a languages is noticeably absent.
So here I give thanks to everyone that has helped write translations for this program:
Translator 1 (Language 1),
Translator 2 (Language 2)
Note the current version of VHPA is not translatable so there are no translators at present.
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