When we talk about rigs in motor racing, we hear an awful lot of mention of four, seven and eight-post shaker rigs, and even more discussion on the benefits of wind tunnels. However, the great forgotten test measurement device in motor racing – and I’m just as guilty of this as anybody else – is the kinematics and compliance rig, K&C for short.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had a few customers use the MIRA rig in the UK and the Morse Measurements rig in the US. To say both of these rigs have made my life infinitely easier when it comes to vehicle modelling is a massive understatement, and what we’ll be discussing in this article is what such rigs offer and why, if you are running in the mid-levels and above, you’d be crazy not to use one.
