100: Want to Get Your Car Handling Better Than Ever Before? Listen to This.
Are you sick of playing the guessing game when it comes to setting up the suspension and tyre systems in your race or road car? If you’ve ever felt like you’re throwing alignment adjustments, damper settings, and spring rate changes at the pit wall just to see what sticks when making changes to your or your customer’s vehicle, then this episode with Bruno Finco of Optimum G is going to be a perfect listen. Use “OPTIMUMG50” to get 50% OFF OUR Suspension Tuning and Optimization course: https://hpcdmy.co/suspensionbOriginally from Brazil and now based in Colorado, unusually for a guest of the Tuned In podcast, Bruno didn’t have all that much interest in cars growing up — it wasn’t until he went to university to gain a degree in mechatronics engineering that he joined the school’s Formula SAE team and began a life-long love affair with all things motorsport.Walking out of university and straight into a role at Colorado-based Optimum G, Bruno has since gone on to become the motorsport tech company’s Lead Performance Engineer, and now spends his time travelling around the world’s greatest race circuits, gathering data, helping both race teams and OEMs optimise their vehicle dynamics, and teaching others how to do the same through the use of Optimum G’s highly-regarded software packages.The bulk of this admittedly very tech-heavy episode consists of Bruno talking us through the many nuanced points of motorsport handling and performance, breaking down concepts into their many facets. This includes roll centre, tyre slip angle, Ackermann steering, anti-dive and squat, plus much more. Bruno also explains how Optimum G’s software works, and most interestingly, despite how it first looks, how it’s not something you need to have a Ph.D. in order to understand and use to substantially improve your vehicle’s performance.A more thorough explanation of Ackermann steering can be found here.Find all the resources Bruno mentioned in this episode here.Follow Bruno and Optimum G here:IG: @optimumg, @bruno.fincoLI: OptimumGYT: OptimumG WWW: optimumg.comDon’t forget, you can use “OPTIMUMG50” to get 50% OFF OUR Suspension Tuning and Optimization course: https://hpcdmy.co/suspensionb