Black Falcon, a motorsport team based at Germany's Nürburgring, used SHINING 3D's FreeScan Trak Nova 3D scanner to verify repairs on a race car rebuilt after a serious crash during the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Rather than replace the vehicle, the team rebuilt it and scanned the repaired areas to check the geometry before sending the car back onto the Nordschleife at competitive speeds.
Because the rebuilt car was headed straight back into competitive driving, Black Falcon treated the post-repair scan as a distinct step between workshop and track, separate from the visual inspection and conventional measurement the team already performs. What's new here is using full 3D geometry capture, rather than eyeballing panel fit or crash-structure alignment, to confirm a repair before a car returns to racing speeds on the Nordschleife.
The FreeScan Trak Nova checked chassis and crash-structure geometry and also documented the condition of used vehicle surfaces, including the car's front splitter. That gave Black Falcon's engineers a digital record of each part's geometry for inspection and further engineering work, something the physical component alone doesn't provide.
The team has also put the scan data to work beyond inspection. A splitter scan can serve as the starting geometry for CFD simulation, an approach Black Falcon said can cut time and cost on certain development tasks compared with wind-tunnel testing, which it called expensive. Working from a part's actual scanned geometry also avoids the manual reconstruction otherwise needed to model it digitally.
Black Falcon has raced at the Nürburgring for more than 20 years, winning the Nürburgring 24 Hours twice and recording more than 300 class victories. Its scanning setup dates to a partnership with SHINING 3D formed after the team introduced a new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car, expanding the technical capabilities it now applies to repair verification and CFD work alike.
