Race Car Design

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We’ve covered the journey of forces from the tyre contact patch through the wheels and suspension into the springs and dampers, and now we arrive at their final destination, the chassis. Since drag is generally of low concern in motorsports development (except in categories with limited power engines), it is preferred to have track width as large as possible, since it reduces lateral load transfer. From the tyre dynamics article, it should now be clear that the greatest contact patch size is desirable from a dynamics point of view.Looking at the cars this season, you can see that the approaches to this problem largely fall into two camps.

After the design constraints are identified, it is necessary to define the goals, which will guide the whole design process.

Jack Lambert, Lead Development Engineer for Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY highlights; ‘W e do adjust our geometry for each particular circuit, adapting the characteristics of the car to suit specific corner styles we see at our city circuits – if we need a little more agility, or stability for example. Other suspension attributes such as Kinematics (including structural compliance), springs and dampers warrant their own articles and will be covered later on in this vehicle dynamics article series.