In part one of this mini-series last month, I talked about how to generate an aeromap, the tests you need to run and what you need to watch out for. In this follow-up article, I will focus on implementation. By that I mean what you need to look for in terms of data, how you set it up and, once you have the results, how you use them to create an aeromap. Finally, we will look at what you need to then validate it. As we are about to discover, this is not as intimidating as you might think.
The first step in this process is making sure your damper pots are correctly calibrated and functional. While this sounds obvious, it’s something I see race teams screw up, or worse, overlook, on a regular basis. It has been said that eyes are the windows to the soul, and the racecar analogue of this is your damper pots. They tell you so much about the car and, if you don’t get them right, you might as well pack up
