This Week in Startups · Saturday, June 27, 2026
Lyle Davenport of Skin Systems discussed how his company is changing aerodynamics testing for motorsports. Instead of relying solely on traditional wind tunnels, Skin Systems uses tape embedded with sensors to collect real-world data on cars while they are on the track.
“You think of, you know, you always see images of cars in the wind tunnel and they're monitoring with all these sensors. This company is like, we've got a better way. Check out the tape. You don't need a wind tunnel anymore.”
“So, um, that's where we've got to. We've spent about two years building, uh, the hardware to get to the point where we are today.”
“We can have up to 100 sensors on the vehicle at a time. So, um, between the data that we're generating off the tape and the metadata that we're collecting in terms of GPS and IMU data, so where the car is and how it is interacting pitch roll your acceleration.”