What you'll learn

In over 2 hours of condensed video content

  • Fundamental vehicle dynamics theory behind race track setup.

  • Why yaw acceleration capability is just as important as lateral acceleration capability.

  • An intuitive view of tire slip angles and other tire behavior which are at the root of vehicle handling.

  • How load transfer reduces overall grip but can sometimes be useful.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to Race Track Setup as a topic

  • 2

    High level goals of race car setup - maximize size and use of friction circle

  • 3

    How the driver feels oversteer and understeer

    • Oversteer understeer

    • Alternative presentation format video

    • Oversteer and understeer - what the driver feels
  • 4

    Why yaw acceleration capability is important

    • Why yaw rotation capability is important

    • Alternative presentation format video

    • Why yaw rotation capability is important
  • 5

    Tire behavior as it relates to handling - deformation, slip and saturation

    • Tire behavior as it relates to handling - deformation, slip and saturation

    • Alternative presentation format video

    • Tire behavior
  • 6

    Load transfer and how its 3 components can be used to tune handling.

    • Load transfer and how its 3 components can be used to tune handling.

    • Alternative presentation format video

    • Load transfer and its 3 components
  • 7

    Summary

    • Review

Instructor - Senior Expert Active Suspension Systems

Shi Yan

Chartered Engineer (CEng MIMechE) and former sim racer with 18 years experience in vehicle dynamics, Senior Expert Active Suspensions at Geely. Created clean sheet active active suspension controller at Ford as research lead for semi active and active suspension control. Created 2021 Range Rover active roll bar controller at JLR. Led development of new electronic damper technology at Tenneco. Inventor in patents of frequency dependent to active dampers, variable track width suspension, road profile estimation method and control algorithms. Limit handling licensed at Ford and JLR. Experienced in mechanical, electro-hydraulic and controls engineering. Multi lingual (EN,CN,NL,DE,FR).

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