We are standing in the R&D headquarters of Titan, the UK manufacturer of some of the world’s most advanced automotive steering systems, looking at a large screen showing a map of the Suzuka Formula 1 racing circuit. A dot moves rapidly around it, representing a car.
In the average teenage bedroom this would be part of an elaborate computer game, but here it’s much more serious. Map and screen belong to a bespoke test rig being used to develop the light, super-secret, by-wire EPAS (electric power-assisted steering) system of a leading F1 car that must remain nameless for now.
The F1 connection is just one indicator of how quickly 60-year-old Titan has progressed in the hands of a new team that started running it in 2015 and took ownership in 2022.
