#TIL Today I Learned Motorsports
You learn something new everyday. If you are anything like me you also forget just as quick! #TIL’s are snippets of peoples day-to-day learning that they share publicly. Think of Today I Learned Motorsports as a growing collection of small, concise “Aha!” moments you can forever refer back to.
Motorsports tips and tricks I am learning day-to-day and sharing here to help you reduce your lap times.
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General Theories & Principles
Simplified definitions of
- Understeer
- Oversteer
- Longitudinal acceleration
- Lateral acceleration
- Race Engineer
- Performance (Data) Engineer
- 4 race track corner phases
Data Analysis Principals (Software Tools Below)
Race Engineering
- How tyre temperature affects grip
- Driver feedback checklist
- Typical race tyre temp ranges
- Racing car ride frequency ranges
- Typical racing car damper ratios
- A tyre pressure strategy to run in the wet
- Target hot tyre pressures
- Methods for measuring unsprung mass
Driving Faster
Analysis Software
AiM Race Studio 2
- How to setup gSum
- Seeing incomplete lap data
- Sector not appearing
- Correcting start finish line
- Toggle distance or time on Measures Graph
- How to get time variance to show up
- What files you need when sharing data
- Configuring the predictive gear ratios
Race Technology
- Creating sector markers
- Removing sector markers
- Saving layout
- Making start finish line for new track
- SD card needs to look like this
- Filtering controls for a data channel
- Moving or realigning a GPS trace
- Using time slip % rate to find differences quickly
- Navigating video playback controls in GoPro version on Mac Parallels
- Setting the car parameters