Data Analysis Tips

An oldie but goodie - showing you how to do the math in Race Studio Analysis 2 for corner minimum speeds and straight away max speeds. You can also use this for things like braking points, turn in, etc. with a little bit of work and alterations.

If you've ever talked to a suspension engineer, shock guy, or read up on suspension setup, you've probably seen where people say the goal is to reduce the contact patch load variation. That is a complex sounding way to say that you want to minimize how much weight moves around on your car to keep the same amount of weight on each tire. We just had a great example of this in practice.If you look at the photo close, you'll see that there is temperature and shock position for each tire along with l …

I've seen the whole Throw back Thursday thing, so here is an article from the old blog going back 10 years!G-G Diagram / aka The Friction CircleIf you've made it to this blog, you're probably familiar with the friction circle. As a quick review, it’s the theoretical circle of forces that a tire can develop – 100% accelerating, 100% braking, or 100% cornering in either direction. The exciting part is as soon as you start using less than 100% of one direction, you can start using some of another d …

After every session, download and look at your data. To improve you must measure and review what you did.