Optimal thinking
Apr 01, 2022
4 minutes
BY CLAUDE ROUELLE
‘Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world,’ said Archimedes.
We have learnt in our engineering courses that a force is defined by an application point, a direction and an intensity. So worry first about the force application point, and its direction, before you consider its intensity.
Now apply this thinking to racecars. Sometimes, when a car cannot get into ‘the zone’ of performance, even after having changed ride heights, springs, ARBs, dampers, camber, caster, toe, tyre pressure… you name it, changing some inboard or outboard suspension pick-up point coordinates by a few millimeters can make
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