To better prepare itself for next month's Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway, the U.S. bobsled team has integrated into its training a new and improved bobsled simulator designed by UC Davis professor Mont Hubbard and graduate students in his lab. Believed to be the first and only one of its kind in the world, the one-person simulator was recently installed at the temporary training headquarters of the U.S. team in Calgary, Canada. Two years ago, members of the U.S. bobsled team hailed their month of simulator runs as noticeably improving their driving skills preceding the 1992 Winter Olympics. At that time, the simulator offered only a fast-paced course unfurling before the driver on the computer screen, offering visual feedback to steering. The latest version of the simulator gets more physical, rolling side to side with the turns, giving harder steering on tight curves and the taped accompaniment of actual bobsled sounds. The high-speed computer does more work too, offering post-run data for drivers to analyze their weak spots.