The Future Is Them
STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
A free STEM programme from Daniel Newman Racing. We bring a racing simulator to schools, colleges and youth organisations in and around Ipswich, and use it to show young people what those four subjects actually let you do.
What if one experience could change the way a young person sees their own future?
“It is pointless.”
Until it is the difference between winning and losing a race, measured in tenths of a second.
“It is boring.”
Until it explains the grip, the forces and the physics holding a car on the road.
“It is not for me.”
Until they write a simple piece of logic, watch it control real hardware, and think: I could do this.
Young people cannot be inspired by opportunities they do not know exist, and not every child has the same access to technology, motorsport or the experiences that might spark that interest. Futures exists to close some of that gap, starting in our own community.
A racing simulator, brought to your building, at no cost to you
Futures is an interactive STEM programme built around a dedicated racing simulator that we take out into the community. Young people get to race it, and racing is the hook. What we do with what they have just felt is the programme.
- Completely free of charge
- Daniel Newman Racing provides the time, the software, the simulator and the delivery. There is no cost to the school, the college or the group, and there is nothing to buy afterwards.
- We bring it to you
- The simulator travels. Nobody has to book a coach, arrange a trip or find a budget for one, which is usually the point at which an opportunity like this quietly disappears.
- Built for groups, not for one child at a time
- Schools, colleges, youth organisations, and careers and community events. Racing is what draws a group in, and the session is written so the people watching get as much from it as the person driving.
Where it runs
Futures is a United Kingdom programme. It starts in one town and grows outward from there, one tier at a time.
- Ipswich
Where Daniel Newman Racing started, and where Futures starts.
- Suffolk
Schools, colleges, youth organisations and community events across the county and the towns around it.
- The United Kingdom
The programme is UK based and UK delivered. If it works here, it can work in other towns that look a lot like this one.
- Wherever it earns the right to go
Expansion follows evidence, not ambition. First we have to be genuinely good at this.
Racing is the hook. This is the lesson.
We use what they have just experienced to take the whole thing apart. Six steps, and every one of them is a school subject wearing a crash helmet.
- 1The hook
They race it
Every session opens with the thing they actually turned up for. A lap of a real circuit in a real racing simulator, with the wheel loaded up in their hands and the pedals under their feet.
- 2Physics
The car is solved in real time
Grip, weight transfer, downforce, tyre temperature. The car underneath them is not a video. It is a physics problem being answered continuously, and we show them the part of it they just felt through the wheel.
- 3Maths and data
Everything they did becomes numbers
Speed, engine revs, steering angle, cornering forces, tyre temperatures, the gap to their own last lap. What their hands just did arrives as telemetry, and it is the same kind of data a professional team reads.
- 4Software
A rule decides what those numbers mean
Numbers on their own say nothing. Somebody has to write the line that says when this value passes that one, do this. They write one. It runs. That is software development, and it took about a minute to learn.
- 5Electronics and design
Real hardware answers back
The rule they wrote lights an LED on the wheel, redraws a dashboard or pushes back through the steering. Code stops being an abstraction the moment it moves something physical in the room they are sitting in.
- 6Engineering
They go again, and they are quicker
Now there is a reason to care what the numbers said. Measure, understand, change one thing, measure again. That loop is engineering, and they will have done it before anyone tells them what it is called.
Suddenly we are talking about physics, maths, software development, data, electronics, design and engineering. The difference is that now there is a reason to want to understand them.
Opportunity is not evenly distributed
Motorsport and high end technology are expensive, and for plenty of families they are simply out of reach. There are young people a few miles from here who will never otherwise sit in front of equipment like this, let alone find out what sits behind it.
So rather than waiting for them to find the opportunity, we are taking the opportunity to them.
- 01
It is free, and it stays free
Daniel Newman Racing pays for the time, the software and the simulator. There is nothing to pay before, nothing to buy afterwards, and nobody is going to be sold anything.
- 02
No equipment and no head start needed
You do not need a computer suite, a motorsport club, a technology budget or a single young person who already follows racing. Everything the session runs on arrives with us.
- 03
It goes to where they already are
Into the school, the college, the youth group or the community event. Nobody has to fund a coach or arrange a trip, which is usually the exact point where an opportunity like this quietly stops being possible.
- 04
The same session, whoever is in the seat
A young person whose family could buy a racing rig tomorrow and a young person who has never touched one get exactly the same session, the same equipment and the same attention.
It began with a boy in Ipswich who hated maths and science
Daniel Newman Racing started in Ipswich and has grown into a global brand, with technology now used around the world, including by real life professional racing drivers. But it began with a boy who absolutely loved motorsport. Racing cars, technology and anything with an engine.
Maths and science? He hated them. There is a certain irony in looking at the company he went on to build and realising its foundations are the very subjects he had so little interest in at school. Science. Technology. Engineering. Maths. They are behind the software, the data and the technology DNR creates every single day.
Perhaps the problem was not that I hated those subjects. Perhaps I just had not discovered what they could allow me to do.
There could be another fourteen or fifteen year old sitting in a classroom in Ipswich today who loves motorsport but thinks maths and science are not for them. We understand that kid rather well.
Founded in Ipswich
A relatively small town in Suffolk, which is where the whole thing started and where Futures starts too.
Software and technology
Motorsport simulation, telemetry and driver interface technology, built here.
Used around the world
Including by real life professional racing drivers, on hardware from a long list of manufacturers.
We are only at the beginning
Futures is being built in the open rather than unveiled finished. Here is exactly how far along it is, so nobody has to guess.
Futures is announced
Done21 August 2026Published on 21 August 2026. The idea is public, which means we are now accountable for it.
Writing the session
DoneThe session is designed: what happens, in what order, and which part of it is quietly teaching what. We build telemetry and driver interface software for a living rather than lesson plans, so it was shaped alongside people who teach for one.
Bringing partners in
In progressTalking to companies across motorsport, sim racing and technology, and to local businesses here in Ipswich and Suffolk, about helping bring it to life.
Building the simulator
In progressA dedicated rig, specified for a room full of people and for the back of a van, rather than for one driver at home. It has to survive being moved, set up quickly and be usable by somebody who has never sat in one.
The first sessions
NextThe first schools, colleges, youth organisations and community events in and around Ipswich. If you would like your group to be among them, the conversation can start now.
Help us make this something Ipswich can be proud of
Daniel Newman Racing provides the time, the software and the delivery, free of charge. Everything else we are building from the ground up. This started as a DNR idea, and we would love it to end up belonging to a lot more people than that.
Equipment
Hardware, parts and materials for the build, or for keeping it running once it starts travelling.
Services
Transport, storage, print, venue space or a hand with the build. The unglamorous things a travelling programme turns out to need.
Expertise
Teachers, youth workers and engineers who can tell us what genuinely lands with a room of teenagers, and what quietly does not.
Reach
An introduction to a school, a college or a youth group that should know this exists. Often the most valuable thing anybody gives us.
An idea
You do not need to work in motorsport or technology. If you can see something that would make the programme better, tell us.
Your logo here
Every business and individual who helps build Futures is credited on this page, by name and by logo. There are no tiers, no packages and no logo sizes. If you would like to be part of DNR Futures, get in touch and we will find the right way for you to be involved.
Futures was announced on 21 August 2026, so nobody is on this wall yet. Whoever is first will have backed it before there was anything to point at.
Frequently Asked Questions
Thinking about bringing Futures to your group, or helping us build it? Start here.
Something we have not covered? Email us directly
Maybe we show a few young people a side of STEM they have never seen. Maybe we give someone an opportunity they would not otherwise have had. And maybe one of them finds something that changes what they think their future could look like.
Bring Futures to your group
Tell us who you work with and roughly how many young people we would be talking to. There is no booking calendar yet, and getting in touch now means helping shape what the sessions become.
Help us build it
Equipment, services, expertise, an introduction or an idea. You do not need to work in motorsport or technology, and there is no pitch deck to sit through at either end.
Prefer a form? Use the contact page and choose Futures STEM Programme.
The Future Is Them