New Insights on Race Driving
and Suspension Set-Up

WHO KNOWS WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE TYRES??
UNTIL NOW, JUST HOW TYRE SLIP ANGLE CREATES THE ROTATION MOTION OF THE RACE CAR HAS NOT BEEN EXPLAINED TO RACING DRIVERS 

 Hey, Racing Car Driver... If you're not crystal clear in your mind how you FEEL the ROTATION MOTION of the race car then this can directly impact on....

    • Your confidence in driving at the limit

    • Your feedback, especially in relation to the car balance for U/S O/S

    • Your ability in setting up the race car suspension
        

 By learning exactly how you feel what the race car is doing and the insights that flow from this, you can transform how you think about your race driving and your suspension set-up.

Want to learn more about set-up? You need a holistic view of race driving. But where is the pathway to do this?

It comes down to getting the right mindset to help you feel what the race car is doing before you can properly understand the suspension set-up you have on the car now. In this training, you'll learn our easy to implement process where you can analyze suspension set-up problems and then learn and adapt set-up procedures you can use over and over again in making you and your race car faster.

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YOU MAY FEEL IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW HOW RACE CAR HANDLING WORKS... BUT THERE IS HOPE

You Can Create in Your Mind a Complete Picture of Race Car Handling

Learn the simple race car dynamics behind your feel for the rotation motion of the race car. Here's a quick overview of the key concepts:
  • Intellectually, all drivers should relate to the importance of rotation in driver control of the race car. But the finer detail of driver feel and exactly how rotation of the chassis happens due to tyre slip angle has not been revealed to racing drivers before.
  • You can get this understanding with just the right amount of theory about race car dynamics, as I show you in this training. 
  • This knowledge is vitally important in building your mindset and confidence around driving the race car at the limit of grip and your feeling for balance for u/s o/s.

  • Driver feel for balance can be best thought of in terms of the driver feeling the car rotating faster or slower.

  • Oversteer

    The car feels nervous, too agile, too willing to turn.

  • Understeer

    The car feels too stable, unwilling to turn as the driver would like.

  • The Role of Tyre Slip Angle

    The driver's main feel for car balance comes from the rear tyre slip rotating the chassis an amount equal to the rear tyre slip angle only. The front tyre slip angle results in the driver turning the steering wheel a little further into the corner. The driver does not notice this. Nothing for the driver to feel.  (For confirmation of this concept, see "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics", Milliken and Milliken, page 131)

  • Excellent Driver Feedback is Paramount

    Many racing drivers respond automatically to what the race car is doing and are unaware of the finer detail of the race car balance. This new know-how allows you better visualize what you're feeling from the car, so you can give better feedback to your team, leading you to better decisions on the suspension set-up.

  • The Suspension Set-Up Process

    As the driver, you should lead the suspension set-up process, whether you have technical help from your team or it's just you. Our "Science of Race Car Driving and Suspension Set-Up" training gives you the mindset and all the tools you need to successfully set-up your race car. 

Yes, It Really Is Possible!

With our on-line training, "The Science of Race Car Driving and Suspension Set-Up", you’ll learn how to finally take control of your racing.

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In The Next 6 Months, You Could…

  • Be totally in control of your driving and race car development
  • Be consistent and fast
  • Be spot on with your driver feed back and in setting up the suspension on your car 

The right mindset can make all the difference. We cover it all in "The Science of Race Car Driving and Suspension Set-Up"

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"The Science of Race Car Driving and Suspension Set-Up"

 

Are You Ready To Take Control of Your Future Development as a Racing Car Driver?

Our 8-week masterclass/group training will teach you everything you need to know to know about race car dynamics - the key insights at the heart of your new racing driver's mindset. You’ll learn how to:

  • Build and maintain your ability to drive at the limit of grip. Give more precise feedback so you and your team (or just you, if you're an owner driver) can home in on your suspension set-up sweet spot.
  • Save wasted time and effort trying to improve just by trying harder. This is the road map to making you a faster driver in a faster race car.
  • Earn 3x the returns at least, compared to any other investment you can make in your racing. (And it carries through for the rest of your racing career.)

With a straightforward shift in your mindset and some smart tools at your disposal, you could start living the racing life of your dreams.

What's Included In this Masterclass/ Group Training... "In Beta"


When you purchase, you get instant access to two self-paced online training courses - "Mastering Car Control" and "Race Car Suspension Setup for Racing Drivers".  These two courses contain all our accumulated knowledge at Racing Car Technology from testing with racing drivers and doing suspension set-ups in our little workshop in Batemans Bay NSW Australia, over the last twenty years.
The group training, Cohort 1, starts on the Wednesday the 25th of September 2024. It involves 8 midweek live video sessions with recordings available if you can't make it to the lives.
This course is in beta before a full release early in 2025. The video sessions group training and the on-line courses will be upgraded with every successive co-hort of students. 

As a beta version of the final course, I will be working with you closely to develop what works for you and what doesn't work in the training. In exchange for your ideas and help with this, you get way cheaper access to this training and continuing access to all future cohorts and developments while I continue to run this course.

WEEKS 1-4 LIVE VIDEO SESSIONS

Mastering Car Control

  • Discuss and expand on all the new material introduced in the "Mastering Car Control" online training course
  • Discuss the race car dynamics involved (everyone can get this, no maths). And I'll show you the textbook references/proofs
  • Use the insights to transform the way you think about driving the race car, communicating with your team and setting up the suspension
  • Community discussion (FB like feed on my platform) exclusive to students in the group training. Let's canvas all ideas based on your experience

You’ll finish this part of the group training with a complete end to end picture of race car handling. No more gaps in your knowledge.

WEEKS 5 - 8 LIVE VIDEO SESSIONS

Race Car Suspension Set-Up for Racing Drivers


These modules of the group training are based on my twenty years setting up rars using our Excel set-up spreadsheet, called the Racing Car Technology Weight Transfer Worksheet (WTW). Full details in my online training course "Race Car Suspension Set-Up" that comes with your purchase.

  •  Learn about the key principles of Lateral Load Transfer Distribution (LLTD) and steady state cornering, leading to an exact visual in your mind about the so-called transients of the corner entry and exit. 
  • Input data and the results you get in the Racing Car Technology Weight Transfer Worksheet (WTW). Selection of springs and anti-roll bars. Baseline set-up in the workshop.
  • Fully worked WTW examples of race cars just like yours, for open discussion in the live video sessions.
  • Applying all our new set-up know-how in track testing. Learn my easy-to-follow process.

Together with the first part, you’ll finish this second part of the course with a complete picture of what communication between driver and team looks like and how you best proceed with the set-up of your race car.

Our "Science of Race Car Driving" Training Is For You If...

  • You'd like a complete end to end understanding of race car handing - how you feel what the race car is doing and what this means for your driving, the feedback you give and your ability in suspension set-up. 
  • You want to break free from the unknowns of driving by instinct alone and take on a completely new mindset about how you drive the race car.
  • You've had unanswered questions around what's happening at the tyres. To date, nothing you've read or learned seems to give you the answers you are searching for.
  • Whether you're new to racing or highly experienced, you will get this. (The best answers and solutions are always straight- forward and easy to follow.)
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NICE TO MEET YOU

I'm Dale Thompson

I'm an engineer, graduating with my BE(Sc) from the UNSW and working for 10 years with BMC/BLMC in Australia.

After many years circuit racing in a number of grassroots categories, I started Racing Car Technology in 1998, with my mate and co-founder, Neville Smith.

Rather than just general race car preparation, we saw an opening in the amateur racing marketplace for a specialty suspension set-up service. with a strong technical focus.  We did a lot of suspension set-ups, gaining seconds improvement in lap time for our clients, working from our little workshop at Batemans Bay on the South Coast of NSW and testing at the Wakefield Park racetrack at Goulburn.

Starting out, we did not expect anyone to pay us for a lot of trial-and-error testing. So, we developed our Racing Car Technology Weight Transfer Worksheet (WTW). We could use the WTW to get a baseline set-up in the workshop, knowing that we could have the car in the set-up window before we got to the track.

In tandem with our hands-on setups, from 2000 onwards, I started teaching race car dynamics on my website and doing 1:1 consulting in set-up.  

That was the beginnings of the holistic approach to racing I show you in my “Science of Race Car Driving and Suspension Set-Up” group training today.

 "The light bulb came on for me and I will be looking at my driving as well as car setup in a new light from now on. 

For the first time I actually understand how and why I feel the car the way I do and can actually explain what happens as the result of my inputs.

This is the best money I have ever spent on racing.
Thank you!”

- Gordon Kinney

"I cannot thank the guys at Racing Car Technology enough. Their approach may seem a little unconventional, but the bottom line is it works. The base setup they gave us for testing was a lot different to the direction the team was going with the car. But we were on the money straight off. For the first time, we had a balanced car that responded to adjustment.

- Peter and James Burge

" The theories proposed in this training have given me new insights into how the driver interprets what the race car is doing and how he reacts to it. My driver has learned what he is feeling and a context and vocabulary to communicate it. Now we've got the tools to do a predictable setup in the shop and a format to test that will quickly bring car and driver up to speed"

- Kris Heil

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"The Science of Race Car Driving" Group Training, In Beta, Cohort 1

Includes Immediate access to my two premium online courses, "Mastering Car Control" and "Race Car Suspension Set-Up" PLUS entry into my group training Masterclass, "The Science of Race Car Driving", starting on the Wednesday 25th September, 20

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