ADAMASTOR FURIA STORY - A dream come true!

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Adamastor was born in Porto in 2010, aiming to shape a project that involved not only the business world but also the academic world around a common passion - cars.
Ricardo Quintas and Nuno Faria, partners and founders of Adamastor, decided to bring this dream to life by joining these two realities that do not always have as close of a relationship as they should.
There's no other way to put it: function defined design. The first Portuguese supercar was born from a blank sheet of paper and the design process was led entirely by the head of aerodynamics. This is how important aerodynamics is to the performance of a supercar and Adamastor knows it well. Using Siemens NX CAD software, the design department developed the elaborate bodywork of the new Adamastor with total creative freedom, aiming for the best efficiency and superior performance in sports driving.
In a second stage, once the basic configuration had been designed, the team at Adamastor's engineering centre set about defining the spaces occupied by the main components. In this respect, the work of the other departments - dynamics, powertrain, interior, structures - was essential, as they created the necessary solutions to optimise the installation space as well as the best performance of the respective components. The carbon fibre aerodynamic surfaces, the Venturi effect underbody - a design concept responsible for a large part of the downforce generated, making it possible to avoid the need for components such as ailerons - and the overall design were also optimised using CFD - Computational Fluid Dynamics - simulations (125 different cases, including safety cases).
Using the most advanced technologies and simulation software, Adamastor did more than 30,000 laps to fine-tune and evolve the performance of its supercar, validating the behaviour of the chassis and its dynamics under the most demanding conditions possible. Targets were even set in terms of lap times in the simulator, records that were easily surpassed by the Adamastor supercar. The team also set specific targets in terms of dynamic performance, focusing on areas such as structural rigidity, weight and the location of the centre of gravity.
To achieve it, they engineered a project which focused on the development of a race car with the contribution and experience of Frederico Ribeiro, the current Director of Engineering.
Simultaneously, the programme collaborated with several national engineering, management, and marketing universities. During which, groups of students were chosen to manage and compete in racing the car, each duly supported by an entrepreneur who acted as a mentor.
Prompted by the projects inadequate adhesion witnessed in the first stages of Adamastor’s life. The team saw this obstacle as a real opportunity to build a supercar with their own hands. Several chassis were designed whose various evolutions would lead to one of the crucial moments of Adamastor's history: the birth of the P003 model. The culmination of the know-how acquired by the team which has also served as a launch pad for new goals.
Alfredo Matos and João Passos, founders of DBE - Chassis and Suspension Engineering, a company with an extensive curriculum in the development of race cars, also joined the team to mature the project further.
Naturally the team has grown, and out of the inherent needs, so did Adamastor’s facilities. Evolving into a space that now allows it to fulfil its ambitious development plan, sustained by the ongoing strengthening of human resources and the technical department.
Adamastor is a company made of people, which considers it fundamental to value each of its collaborators, enhancing their capacities, and investing in them to grow. A growth that was, is, and will always be, sustained by outstanding human and technical resources.
In short, since the companies repositioning in 2019, Adamastor is a low-volume supercar manufacturer with its vision set on running in the 24h of Le Mans.

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Nice project

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Think I'll buy 30 of them when I go visit my family in Portugal. Watch a FC Porto game and pick One up