In last month’s article on porpoising, I gave a broad overview of what the effect was, and a case study of how the approaches to dealing with it were applied to a high-downforce open wheeler.
What that article lacked, however, was detail, because I was talking about a live racecar and was unable to share any particulars about the programme. So, to address this, I have taken one of the ChassisSim templates and radically increased the downforce so I can give you some actual numbers and a quantitive case study. Along the way, I’m pleased to say a lot was learned, in particular the limits of what you can actually do, and what you should be thinking about.
This is what we’ll be discussing in depth in this article.
First things first. While my initial comments on porpoising still stand, one thing I was remiss in not mentioning was what you can do about porpoising is highly dependent on the relationship between the platform and.
