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This book builds on over two decades of the author Joseph Quagraine's experience in the world of Scale Motorsports. He picked up RC Car racing as a hobby while a teenager, and progressed all the way to a professional driver in the mid 2000s. Once he was done with his mechanical engineering and industrial design studies in 2009, he started his own company, JQ Design Ltd and released his own car that he had designed over the last few years.
JQ as he is known has a passion for race car performance and engineering, and after applying decades of research into how vehicle dynamics affect the performance of the scaled down versions of race cars, it was time to put it all his knowledge down on paper.
This book is unique, as the only book to cover race car design theory, practical applications of setups, and their effect on handling of RC Cars. The book is based on the original book for 1:8th scale nitro buggies, but this version is adapted for 1:10th scale electric on road cars. Additionally, the information in this book is relevant even for full scale racing. The laws of physics are the same for all. Here is some of what
the book covers: - Car Preparation
- Driving, Practising, Connecting with your car
- Why do we need setup?
- How is a car supposed to work?
- Tyres, Load Transfer, Pitch & Roll
- Initial Grip vs Overall Grip
- Roll Centres
- Alignments
- Shocks
- Diffs
- Aerodynamics
- Setups for different track conditions
- Maximising your potential & performance
- Mental Focus & Development
- A lot more!
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