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Hey Guys,

My apologies for the lack of posting - we at ChassisSim have been absolutely flat out. I just thought I'd give everyone the heads up that due to popular request, the hard copy of my book...

Hey Guys,

Just a quick community service announcement. For those of you based in Europe we'll be exhibiting at the PMW Expo in Koln/Cologne Germany from Nov 7 - 9. We are at stand 6072.

Also...

Hey Guys,

Just a reminder about the ChassisSim bootcamps,

http://www.chassissim.com/blog/chassissim-news/the-chassissim-bootcamps-are-on-for-2018

A quick word about how things are...

Hey Guys,

Last month I presented at the inaugural Altair Engineering Australasian FSAE technical conference. Here is an abridged version of what I presented in the afternoon,
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Hey Guys,

Just letting everyone know I've put out the schedule for the ChassisSim bootcamps at the end of the year. Here is the link,
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Hey Guys,

First things first sorry I've been a bit quiet. We've got a lot of exciting things happening with ChassisSim and I've been crazy busy.

Anyway I have a treat for you today. Yesterday I...

Hey Guys,

Just taking the temperature on this forum and a few questions I've had come my way a big question mark is what should you do with regards to damping. This is an oldie but a goodie,
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Hey Guys,

A very quick tutorial for you today,

http://www.chassissim.com/blog/chassissim-news/chassissim-3-minute-winning-tips-ride-heights

It's about using ChassisSim to determine ride...

Hey Guys,

A quick community service announcement. Just letting you all know that the ChassisSim Koln/Cologne Bootcamp on Thursday the 13-14th of November 2017 is sold out. For those of you based...

Hey Guys,

I realise we are at the tail end of August and September but I thought I'd give you all a quick reminder about the ChassisSim bootcamps in November/December,
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Hey Guys,

As we all know dampers are a very necessary but confusing aspect of racecar engineering. In the following I give you some tips and tricks to help navigate your way through the jungle,
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Hey Guys,

I've got a hands on tutorial for you today. One of the most misunderstood areas of racecar vehicle dynamics and racecar engineering is how do you measure up a racecar. It's one of these...

Hey Guys,

The ChassisSim bootcamps are back for 2017. Here are the details,

http://www.chassissim.com/blog/chassissim-news/chassissim-bootcamps-2017

This year there is a difference. The Indy...

Hey Guys,

I have a follow up post for you. A couple of months I posted a tutorial about tyre modelling from a blank sheet of paper. The following puts this into practice,
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Hey Guys,

I've been seeing a lot discussion lately about valid simulation and sims that count. However one key question to ask is what do you get out of simulation. The following addresses this,
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Hey Guys,

A bit of a fun treat for you today. When we are busy studying, rushing to complete a car build et al it's easy to lose sight of why we do what we do.

Remember the World Time Attack...

Hey Guys,

I realise the following is preaching to the choir, but when we start running a racecar there is a great temptation to push simulation, vehicle dynamics simulation in particular to the...

Hey Guys,

I have a real treat for you today. You know how we all struggle to take into account race car handling when we predict race car performance. Well this will sort that out,
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Hey Guys,

Just a quick community service announcement. ChassisSim v3.30 is out. Here's a quick introduction video,
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Pete,

These are all excellent questions and let me break it down 1 by 1,

Where lap time simulation, ChassisSim in particular feeds into the food chain is it provides a representative...

Z,

There is a very simple question to be asked. ChassisSim's track record is self evident. But the critical question to be asked is what's yours? What motor racing categories have you worked in...

Z,

I'd love to see what you just said about hand calculation of aero to an F1 Technical Director and if necessary I can make the appropriate introductions.

Verifying what the car is doing via...

Z,

Hand calculating aero to determine a car's CLA, CDA and aero balance is one of the most basic skills a data/performance engineer needs to know. It's a consequence of a simple force balance and...

Hey Guys,

First things first my apologies to both Flight909 and JT A for the very delayed reply. To say things have been busy on my end has been an understatement.

Firstly quantifying the dive...

Hey Guys,

I have a real treat for you today. A couple of weeks ago I engineered a car at World Time Attack Challenge at Eastern Creek. Here is what happened,
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