[Land-speed] Skids and Spins...

[Ed Weldon]

Good idea, Mayf....I hope more people than you and I will be interested in
this subject.  Sumner; you listening here?
Ed Weldon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: "LSR" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:40 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] Skids and Spins...


(snip)   In the next few monhs I am going to try and develop a
> model that can be generally used by lsr folk to try and get some
> understanding on how their car handles and how it gets into the
> situation of a skid or spin to begin with.  Since I am older than dirt,
> it is taking me a bit longer to rouse up enough brain cells to attack
> this issue, but hang tight...
>
> I wil try and include the effects of the center of pressure, the aero
> forces involved, the center of gravity, wheel base, corner weights, the
> forces exerted by teh contact patches,  and the PMOI.
>
> anyone have comments regarding tis topic lemme know in a pm, as no need
> to bother the entire list
> mayf