FIA World Endurance Championship Hypercar competitors using Monolith machine learning to automatically recommend most impactful tests and unlock smart performance gains
- Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA draws on Monolith’s artificial intelligence (AI) software to enhance racing performance through data-driven setup optimisation
- Monolith’s ‘Next Test Recommender’ (NTR) analyses data to automatically rank the most impactful tests for engineers to run, combining with the Monolith Test Plan Optimisation (TPO) tool to deliver optimised, highly efficient test-programmes
- The team is able to use specialised min/max optimisation modules thanks to Monolith’s tool-suite, focusing on specific design parameters e.g. tyre Contact Patch Load and pitch under acceleration
- Using NTR and TPO, the engineers have the tools to efficiently unlock performance gains, with Monolith forecasting a reduction in tyre Contact Patch Load of approximately 3%
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14 May 2025, London, UK – Monolith, artificial intelligence (AI) software provider to the world’s most innovative engineering teams, announces its strategic partnership with Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA – leveraging the power of Monolith’s machine learning platform to enhance performance development for its pair of Hypercar challengers in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
The new agreement sees JOTA implement Monolith’s AI solution across a broad range of its motorsport activities, building on Monolith’s existing portfolio of customers in the motorsport sector. In the pursuit of highly efficient performance gains, Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA is focusing its partnership with Monolith on data-driven car optimisation, with Monolith’s AI platform set to time-efficiently refine the setup of the team’s Hypercar.
Monolith’s ‘Next Test Recommender’ (NTR) programme is at the centre of the partnership. The solution analyses engineers’ data inputs to automatically rank the most impactful tests and setups to run, working with the Monolith Test Plan Optimisation (TPO) to deliver an optimised, highly efficient test programme.
Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA engineering personnel combine the Monolith platform with their MATLAB analytics suite and existing workflows, creating a powerful approach for vehicle dynamics analysis and optimisation.
Tomoki Takahashi, Technical Director at Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA, said: "Our focus is always on extracting maximum performance from every aspect of the car. MonolithAI enables us to interrogate complex datasets with speed and precision. By integrating their AI tools into our workflow, we’re able to make smarter decisions faster - ultimately helping us try and stay competitive at the highest level of endurance racing."
JOTA engineers harnessed Monolith's NTR and TPO solutions with their powerful min/max optimisation modules to transform their approach to vehicle dynamics. By visualising and analysing specific design parameters across different suspension-damping configurations, the team identified performance sweet spots significantly faster than through traditional methods. This data-driven methodology has proven valuable on test rigs, enabling refinements that achieved notable reductions in tyre Contact Patch Load and improved pitch control during acceleration.
When applied across multiple vehicle characteristics while accounting for complex input/output relationships, these seemingly minor enhancements collectively deliver the decisive margins that translate into performance advantages in hypercar competition.
Sam Emeny-Smith, Head of Automotive and Motorsport at Monolith, said: “Monolith’s partnership with Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA represents an ongoing collaboration, in which our industry-leading machine-learning tool-suite goes hand-in-hand with traditional engineering approaches to complex physics challenges. In a category as competitive as the FIA World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class, teams need access to cutting-edge solutions that will get them ahead of the curve. Drawing on the team’s world-class engineering expertise and the power of artificial intelligence, we’re excited to progress on this journey and unlock even more performance for the squad’s Hypercar challengers.”
Monolith is democratising AI for engineering, aiming to cut engineers’ product development cycle in half by 2026. Its bespoke SaaS platform uses no-code, machine-learning software, giving domain experts the power to leverage existing, valuable testing datasets for their product development. The platform analyses and learns from this information to generate accurate, reliable predictions that enable engineering teams to reduce costly, time-intensive prototype testing programs.
Integrating highly effective innovations such as the ‘Next Test Recommender’ tool and the industry’s first AI-powered ‘Anomaly Detector’ functionality, Monolith provides engineers with intelligent solutions to develop higher-quality products in half the time.
