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In just about all photos of race cars cornering, we can see the slightly nose-in attitude, or drift angle, relative to the cornering line.
As the racing driver turns into the corner, this drift angle, or body slip angle as it is known, builds from zero to a maximum, as slip angles build at the tyre contact patches.
This tiny rotation of the chassis on the tyres is a key feedback for the racing driver in controlling the race car at the limit of grip.
For instance, the racing driver gets to feel whether the tyres are forgiving, (they generate large tyre slip angles), or whether the tyre gives rise to a more agile race car at the cost of some feel at the limit (same or more grip at lesser tyre slip angles).
The feeling is largely subconscious, yet has a very high influence on the driver in determining the balance of the car.
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"Feel is Crucial in Car Control"....
Racing drivers understand there is some sort of "seat of the pants" feeling involved in controlling the race car.
Yet, most cannot say exactly what it is they are feeling.
There has been very little information available to show racing drivers the relevant motions of the race car, the movement of the car the racing driver can feel.
For many of us, (I know this is how I used to think), we make it something about weight transfer - for example, the weight moves around the car in a complicated fashion we can't understand, but we suspect it's possible, that we some how respond to and manage the weight transfer to our advantage in controlling the race car.
At the end of the day, racing drivers end up rationalizing it one way or another....
When you are successful in this sport, you just become comfortable with your car control ability. Thoughts about the actual mechanism, and how it works, go into the background. Car control remains a sort of a black box.
But now, when you look at our complete car control explanation, you can see the simplicity of what we've called the "body slip rotation" feeling, and how you can use your knowledge of it in your own racing or performance driving.
The *"Body Slip Angle Rotation" Feeling
The concept of the body slip angle rotation and the associated vehicle dynamics is a huge shake up for racing drivers' thinking.
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In this comprehensive training, I'll show you how this simple rotation works for you and takes away all the assumed complexity normally associated with how the racing driver feels the car.
You'll discover the vehicle dynamics principles behind this super simple explanation of car control - all in a way that racing drivers can identify with, without the mathematics you have to plow through reading books on vehicle dynamics engineering.
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