The past few weeks have had a disappointing number of rain outs and personal scheduling conflicts that have meant I have been unable to get to the track as much as I would like to. However, every day, I am still trying to move the peg another notch forward. This year as seen the revival of my YouTube channel, and I’ve kept myself busy researching new topics to make videos about.
I wanted to make a video about why the suspension of a late model works so well… But I realized there was a lot I don’t know. As a visual learner, I was having a really hard time understanding the relationships between all the forces on our cars. I also saw a number of really cool videos that blew my mind a little – such as this one https://youtu.be/QKPG8fCWT5A – which helped me realize I had a lot of misconceptions.
With all that being said, I combined my education (web development) with all this research I have been doing to build a tool that helps visualize weight transfer (lateral G), wheel loads, and how much load is accepted by the spring vs the panhard bar, etc. It is reduced to its most standard physics equations, which made it pretty easy to plug into a visual tool like this. I can’t take all the credit… AI did speed up the process.
My plan is to release this as a tool on my website and accompany it with a YouTube video that will explain better what I learned by doing all this and how we can apply it to our own race cars.