Session 1 – Global racecar performance

• Find out how teams use sensitivity studies to establish key performance areas
• Discover how engineers manage the trade-offs between:
  • Corner gain vs speed
  • Downforce vs drag
  • Aerodynamic performance vs mechanical performance
  • Single lap tyre performance vs race pace
  • Power unit performance vs fuel vs energy consumption
• Understand why low speed corners are important to overall lap time
• Learn how teams choose the philosophy of their car and develop this throughout the season

Session 2 – Ride Modelling

• Understand the different components within a damper and how dampers can be used to optimise the contact patch load of tyres
• Use tools such as a ride model and damper scan to analyse and optimise performance
  
• Find out how the road surface is approximated in ride models

Session 3 – Suspension

• Learn the theory behind suspension layouts used in motorsport
• Study the different components and requirements of both inboard and outboard suspension
• Make sense of camber gain and how teams use this to maximise traction
• Understand roll balance and how anti roll bars, roll damper, compliant drop links and pushrod on uprights can all be used to increase performance
• Find out how engineers select springs for specific ride height windows 

Session 4 – Tyre performance

• Overview of the mechanisms behind tyre grip, wear and degradation and how this varies from soft to hard compounds
• Discover the importance of tyre temperature and how engineers use the working range to maximise grip
• Understand the effects of tyre pressures and how this affects the contact patch
• Analyse tyre degradation throughout a stint and find out how to optimise car set-up for short and long stints
• Learn how the track layout affects different tyres on the car, how teams cope with new tracks and the importance of surface roughness
• Overview of tyre models and how these are used in F1 teams

* Please note schedule is subject to change