Data logging has become an essential tool for professional racing teams in all forms of motorsport who are trying to get the maximum potential from the engine, chassis, and the driver. The equipment to successfully log this data is now available to amateur drivers, builders, and armchair racers, and can be a very cost-effective way of improving your performance. Everything is explained including how to design and install a system, how to interpret the collected data, and how to use this data to analyze a performance. It discusses logging techniques for karts, circuit racing, rallying, hill climbing, sprinting, hot rod racing, stock car racing, and drag racing.
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For professional teams in all forms of motorsport, data logging has become an essential tool in the search to maximize performance from engine, chassis and driver. Data logging equipment is now accessible to amateur drivers and constructors, and is a very cost-effective way of improving performance. Fully updated to include recent developments, this is a readable, well-illustrated guide to all aspects of data logging, explaining how to design and install a system, and how to interpret the data obtained and use it to analyze performance. The book will also appeal to armchair enthusiasts.
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Simon McBeath is an experienced motorsport enthusiast, a competitor for more than 25 years, and a freelance writer who contributes regularly to several magazines. He also designs, manufactures and markets composite racecar aerofoils. He lives near Blandford, Dorset, England.
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If you want to understand how data logging can be applied to your motorsport activities, rather than how data loggers work, then this is a very useful text. If you want to know how different sensors function, this is not the book for you.
McBeath starts with the basics of analysis and builds your technique in a manner which should apply to most systems (It worked for my Haltech data as well as dedicated units). I think there is either a good teacher hiding inside the author or he had a excellent assistant; I found the text very easy to follow, and he has turned what could be a very dry topic into an interesting read, even for casual browsing. The last section of book makes for interesting reading as to how the "big boys" from touring cars to formula 1 make use of fundamentally the same technology, albeit with better budgets than you and I. That said, there is still things to learn from these discussions. The book is well illustrated both with diagrams and sometimes light-hearted photos to make a point.
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car data logging, steering trace, throttle trace, rpm trace, throttle blip, maths channels, rev trace, speed trace, traction circle, blue lap, red lap, shift rpm, available grip, different laps, revs drop, cornering force, slowest point, corner apex, throttle application, steering angle, throttle angle, steering correction, race engineer, track map, competition car Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Club Chicane, Martyn Bell, Nigel Greensall, Redgate Corner, Formula Renault Sport, Herdez Bettenhausen, Donington Park, Old Hairpin, Tracey Inglis, Church Corner, Craner Curves, Formula Vauxhall Lotus, Gurston Down, Magneti Marelli, Mick Kouros, Ashes Bend, Hollow Bend New!
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- Modern Engine Tuning by A. Bell in Back Flap
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- Competition Car Downforce: A Practical Handbook by Simon McBeath in Back Flap
- Competition Car Composites: A Practical Guide (Haynes Competition Car Series) by Simon McBeath in Back Flap
- Competition Car Preparation: A Practical Guide to Basic Principles by Simon McBeath in Back Flap
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