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Racecar engineering resources for the club racer.
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Racecar Engineering
- Get great driver feedback. Every session. 🔥
- Books Books Books! Which ones should you buy?
- Where to start with race car setup?
- Race car setup. A proven approach for success
- Trying to cure understeer or oversteer? Try this setup tuning crib sheet
- What diff ratio to use in your racing car? 🔥
- Easy method to calculate your racing cars Frontal Area
- Choosing the best gear ratios (for any track …)
- Guide to interpreting tyre temperatures (inc FREE spreadsheet) 🔥
- Selection criteria for budget rear view camera system
- The 2 main ways to measure racing car tyre temperatures
- Understeer vs Oversteer – the super simple explanation
- What should the temperature of your racing car tyres be?
- Who is the Race Engineer?
- Procedure for setting racing car tyre pressures accurately
- Where is the best place to mount a transponder?
- Guide to maximising your acceleration (inc best gear change rpm calculator)
- How to set your racing car tyre pressures perfectly (every time)
- Tyre side slip angle explained (You’ll need an eraser …)
Data Analysis (Data Engineering)
- The complete guide on where to start with motorsports data analysis
- Gear Ratio Map – Visualise The Best Gear For Any Corner
- Why Video Analysis Alone Is Not Enough
- What could you learn from having a Pro race your car?
- How to relate telemetry data to track performance
- See how telemetry data can help you drive faster 🔥
- What racecar lap simulation software options do I have?
- How to get PS4 telemetry data (for FREE)
- Hills affect racecar braking. An analysis trick you can use to compensate
- How to export your AIM data to share (including exactly which files you need)
- How to use the YDD gearing optimisation tool [VIDEO]
- Are your maximising your racing cars grip? Really? Discover how to tell for sure
- The video data logger that you already own (yes – your GoPro!)
- Introduction to Motorsport Data Analysis: Delta-t 🔥
- Who Is The Data Engineer?
- How to measure the IMPOSSIBLE with 7 types of inferred metric
- Got video but no time? Quick way to create side-by-side lap comparison videos
- Data on easy mode. How to compare your racing laps using Google Earth
- What makes great data analysis?
Racecar Driving
- Setting Expectations (And Racecar Data’s True Value To You)
- Levelling-Up Your Driver Feedback 🔥
- Beginners Sim Racing Kit List – Start your online racing career here 🔥
- Most common mistake when doing Heel and Toe (plus 2 ways to improve)
- Learn a race track in your lunch break
- Here is the perfect lap (even if you are not a Hamilton fan) (VIDEO)
- Snow. Nordschleife. Formula Car. What is not to like? (VIDEO)
- How to drive fast. Reacting but to what …
[Bonus] Excel-Specific Help
- Easily filter your noisy data with these Excel apps.
- Learn Excel VBA (free 4-part video course)
- How to audit an Excel file
- Dealing with sub-second time in Excel
Your Data Driven Podcast
Learn from the Pros on the Your Data Driven Podcast show:
- Ep14. How You Can Get The Most From Sim Racing with Assetto Corsa’s Aris Vasilakos
- Ep13. Better Chassis Setup Using Simulation with ChassisSim’s Danny Nowlan
- Ep12. Go Faster Now with Motorsports Data Analytics Guru Peter Krause
- Ep11. What It Takes To Win with British Touring Car Legend Matt Neal
- Ep10. “Some Say” He Was Flat Out & Flat Broke with Perry McCarthy Ex-F1 Driver & The Original Stig.
- Ep9. Data In Club Racing with AIM expert James Colborn
- Ep8. Teaching Future Stars at Jim Russell Racing School with John Kirkpatrick
- Ep7. Making Fast Racing Drivers with Scott Mansell Driver 61
- Ep6. Chassis Setup Made Simple with ex-Prodrive Engineer Damian Harty
- Ep5. Racing Insights from Mercedes F1 Engineer James Williams
- Ep4. Race Driver Performance Analysis with Andrew Rains of Apex Pro
- Ep3. Tips For Racing Faster – with Ross Bentley
- Ep2. How You Can Raise Sponsorship (Yes You!) – with Andrew Cohen-Wray
- Ep1. Mental Performance In Racing – with Andrew Cohen-Wray