To be honest, without a methodical approach, you (or anyone) will have a hard time working out what will make your racing car better. My suggestion is that if you get organised you can find great settings for your racing car – even if you are not an engineer. And yet …Īnd yet, that nagging feeling of “Could we set the race car up better?” does not go away. Not only that but so many influential things change in parallel ( on the racecar, within the racing environment and even with the driver) that it makes the problem so much harder.įrankly it is no wonder people become easily confused and put off by it all. One of the main reasons this is complicated is that lots of things on your racing car are so highly interconnected.įor example, change your racecar setup to try to improve your grip in, say, left-hand corners and you might totally upset its stability under straight-line braking. Your resident paddock cup champion will (as ever) give you confident answers to all these questions (and more!) but are they right? Like Pandora’s Box, once opened you rapidly end up with more questions than you started with: In fact, if you have ever started to look into it in any detail you will know that it gets so complicated, so quickly that I totally understand why many people are put off by the very thought.įor example, here is a nice summary of the generally held advice for racecar tuning. So how can you work out what the these optimal settings are?Īs you will likely appreciate, the answer to this simple question is (unfortunately!) not that simple. Once you dial in these settings, you will be giving your driver the best chance to perform.ĭo that and you have the best chance for your team to get podiums and wins. One perfect race car setup that would enable your racing car to be the “very fastest possible” given any conditions and at any track. One perfect combination of settings that is better than all the other possible combinations. It follows then that there must be one “perfect” setup that is the best of the lot. It is intuitive to think that some combination of your racing car chassis settings will be either better or worse than others. Given all the things you can change on your race car (camber, caster, toe, ride height, dampers etc) how can you be sure you are running the optimal race car setup?
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