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David York · 10-10-05, 03:27 PM

Hey Guys,

What are you trying to achieve with the corner weights? When we set up our caterhams the goal was to get the weight across the fronts as equal as possible. This was until a friend of mine who is a suspension designer working at Ricardo spent a morning and pot of coffee explaining what was happening with the dynamics of the car when racing. He suggested an approach that made the cross weights equal. In other words the sum of the right rear and left front equal to the right front left rear. That centralized the mass in the car so it would react the same during transition. I just about understood it on the day but now am a little hazy on the details. Anyway the point is that the car felt much better to me in this configuration to when I had it equal across the front. Of course this is with the car as it would run, fuel load, driver dressed and in the seat etc.

What is the standard practice on 40's?

Great info on moving the battery to the front!

10-10-05, 03:27 PM	#4 (permalink)
David York A Tenth Join Date: Feb 2005 GT40: Glous, UK Posts: 127 Rep Power: 5	Re: Corner weights on CAV Hey Guys, What are you trying to achieve with the corner weights? When we set up our caterhams the goal was to get the weight across the fronts as equal as possible. This was until a friend of mine who is a suspension designer working at Ricardo spent a morning and pot of coffee explaining what was happening with the dynamics of the car when racing. He suggested an approach that made the cross weights equal. In other words the sum of the right rear and left front equal to the right front left rear. That centralized the mass in the car so it would react the same during transition. I just about understood it on the day but now am a little hazy on the details. Anyway the point is that the car felt much better to me in this configuration to when I had it equal across the front. Of course this is with the car as it would run, fuel load, driver dressed and in the seat etc. What is the standard practice on 40's? Great info on moving the battery to the front!