Recent content by raa

We are in a Engineering Forum, so we cannot be as accurate as we want: we must do some approximations if we want to achieve some results! So i will not take in account this phenomenon at the moment.

First of all, I thank you all for the driving knowledge you are adding to this topic: those notions will be very useful when we will be able to add more variables to the issue and then we will make the problem more complex. But for now, if I want to have some kind of result, even highly...

I don't think this is a good idea, maybe I'm wrong but I will tell you why I think so: in a "circle" corner, made by two radius, R0 and R1 with R0 < R1, the maximum speed allowed is on the external rim of the corner on the radius R1, that is v_R1 = sqrt( g* k * R1), but the path to be driven is...

Thank you for the good tip :) But besides all of your "REAL" and "matter-of-facts" tips, I still want to compute the best racing line with math and calculations :) In order to simplify the problem, we could assume that the kart is a particle, and is moving at maximum permitted speed by tyres'...

What if we try to simplify the problem a little bit? I don't want to get iper-accurate results, only approximate ones, in order to give approximatively the best path to drive, but not the best one ever :) So we have to not consider a variety of parameters. For example, maybe we can assume we...

Hello folks! How can we find the best path to drive in a circuit in order to do the best lap time? :) I've been trying to solve this problem for 2 weeks, trying to find some functional to minimize, but I'm stuck! Little help? :) P.S. This is not homework :) I just want to know how to beat...