ARAI

The best way to prepare

and for the Formula SAE competition
SAEINDIA
Western Section
organizes a
5 Day Certificate Course
on
VEHICLE DYNAMICS &
MOTOR SPORT
ENGINEERING
in association with
OptimumG, USA
at
ARAI, Pune

8th – 12th
March, 2010

VEHICLE DYNAMICS & MOTORSPORT ENGINEERING

5 Days of shared knowledge and experience with
a renowned race car engineer and FSAE Judge - Mr. Claude Rouelle

“I feel that I learned more in
those three days than I had
learned the entire semester.
I've read several books on
vehicle dynamics and
instrumentation but none of
it really clicked for me until I
attended the seminar.
All in all it was the best class,
dollar for dollar and word for
word, that I've yet taken in
my collegiate career.”
Scott Race
UMR FSAE
Team Secretary & Drivetrain
Design Leader
Get a head-start as you begin to design your car for the Formula SAE competition.
The course will be presented by the experienced race engineer and OptimumG consulting
company owner, Claude Rouelle.
To register for this course, please mail your name, college, SAE Membership
Number, Contact Details and Demand Draft (details on next page) to:
Mr. Sagar Murugkar
SAEINDIA Western Section
C/o, ARAI,
Post Box 832, Pune 411004.
S.No.102, Vetal Hill, Off.Paud Road,
Kothrud, Pune - 411 038.
Tel. 020- 3023 1136 /1245 Fax. 020-25434190
Email : standard.sae@araiindia.com,
ashish.d.shah@hotmail.com
Be sure to register soon as seats are limited!

About ARAI About SAEINDIA

The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) is the nodal
center for research and development in automotive engineering.
The main objectives of ARAI are:
 To carry out sponsored R&D work along with development and
certification testing.
 To prepare and harmonize automotive standards.
 To disseminate information and create a forum for knowledge
sharing.
Please visit www.araiindia.com for more information.
SAEINDIA is a premier professional society that serves the Mobility
Engineering Community engaged in design, manufacture and
service of self propelled vehicles and systems that move in land,
sea, air and space. Its vision is to continuously enrich knowledge
base of practitioners in mobility industry and institutions in the
service of humanity.
Please visit www.saeindia.org for more information.

Claude Rouelle
Claude Rouelle is a high
performance race car designer
and research and development
engineer with over 30 years of
experience in design, test and
racecar engineering. He holds
Master Engineering Degree
from Institute Gramme, Liege,
Belgium and 25 years of race
engineering experience in F-1,
CART, Indy Lites, Formula 3,
ALMS, NASCAR, European &
Japanese Touring Cars &
Australian V8 Supercars. He is
an acclaimed International
teacher and has hosted Racecar
Dynamics & Data Acquisition
Seminar supported by MoTeC,
has conducted over 200
seminars with thousands of
satisfied attendees and also
dozens of in-house engineering
seminars for major
corporations engaged in
motorsports. In 1997, Claude
created OptimumG, a aspects of data acquisition used to measure and develop racecar and race driver
consulting company that
teaches racecar engineering
and data acquisition to
individuals and small groups
through seminars organized
worldwide. He also organizes
seminars for companies like
Ford, GM, Daimler Chrysler,
Goodyear, Michelin, AP Racing,
Dynamics, and several high
performance and racecar
component manufacturers.
About OptimumG
OptimumG is an international
vehicle dynamics consultant
group that helps automotive and
race car teams to enhance their
understanding of vehicle
dynamics and data acquisition
through seminars, consulting and
software development. For more
information, contact OptimumG.
OptimumG LLC
8801 East Hampden Avenue.
Suite 210
Denver, CO 80231, USA
Phone 1 303 752 1562
Fax 1 303 368 0121
engineering@optimumg.com
www.optimumg.com
What is discussed?
 Tire. Tires are the only elements of your race car in contact with the ground.
Understand why and how much of the grip, balance and performance of a car is
decided by the contact patches and deflections. This section of the seminar also
covers tire data collection, analysis and how to use tire data in the race car
design and setup.
 Aerodynamics. After a review of aerodynamics basics, this section focuses on
the understanding of aero-maps, wings, gurney flaps, static and dynamic ride
height settings and how to integrate them into the design of a suspension.
 Kinematics. This part of the seminar will explain why wrong kinematics cannot
be “patched” by spring, antiroll bars and shocks. In addition, why, from the design
to on-track testing and racing, the kinematics definitions and understanding are
essential to the efficiency of race tires. This chapter also explains by example the
essential differences between kinematics and force roll centers as well as
kinematics and force pitch centers.
 Steady State Weight Transfer. Understand step by step the weight transfer
calculation in steady state and the notion of transient weight transfer. This
chapter also focuses on the influence of tire vertical stiffness and chassis torsion
stiffness on the weight transfer distribution as well as the interdependence of roll,
pitch and yaw inertia. You will get guided exercise on weight transfer calculation
under combined lateral and longitudinal accelerations.
 Shocks, Ride and Transient Weight Transfers. After a brief description of
dampers technology, this part of the seminar will focus on damper settings
influence on tire load, tire load consistency and racecar performance. A practical
guide and guided exercise related to spring and damping calculation as well as
choice and fine-tuning of these suspension elements will help you to
considerably diminish the amount of time spent in testing and makes sense of
simple simulation tools.
 Data Acquisition. This seminar section describes both technical and practical
performances. This knowledge will help the engineer to appreciate the
challenges and the satisfactions he faces with data acquisition system
understanding, choice, installation and calibration as well as efficient data
analysis. The seminar presenter will focus especially on mathematical data
analysis and their direct application on race driver performance and racecar tire
performance and endurance evaluation.
 Car design, tuning modification and chassis setup. Several young and
experienced racecar engineers went through this part of the seminar telling that
they got many new ideas, new engineering principles and new perspectives
related to car design and testing. The participant will receive a lot of practical
information and many perspectives on in-shop and on track car setup. The “tips
and tricks” focuses on engineering and constitute a practical application of the
vehicle dynamics knowledge taught in the previous chapters. The “tips and tricks”
focuses on engineering and constitute a practical application of the vehicle
dynamics knowledge taught in the previous chapters. And anything else you
wish to discuss…
A comprehensive, well-organized proceeding containing more than 500 pages of
explanatory text and illustrative diagrams will be given to each participant. Several
examples of setup, data, and practical experience will also be shown and given as
illustrations. Whether this is your first or thirtieth year in racing, this seminar will
help you start out the competition armed with the information you need to help
you every step of the way.
REGISTRATION FEES and MODE OF PAYMENT
Send a Demand Draft in favour of
“The Automotive Research Association of India”,
payable at Pune.
Total Registration Fees
Category Fees (Rs.)
including 10.3% Tax (RS.)
Non – SAEINDIA Members 22000.00 24266.00
SAEINDIA Members 20000.00 22060.00
SAEINDIA Faculty Members 15000.00 16545.00
SAEINDIA Student Members 10000.00 11030.00
(Fees include 500 page proceedings, breakfast and lunch for all 5 days)