Picked up this nice book on data logging at the Race Tech booth at the PRI show:

Making Sense of Squiggly lines, the Basic Analysis of Race Car Data Acquisition, by Christopher Brown, 2011.

Very nice book which focuses almost entirely on improving driver rather than car performance via the use of data acquisition. Conforms many things in the race driving book by Michael Krumm I posted about. Many things to be learned from this book, assuming you like looking and analyzing charts. Have read about 3.4 of the book, and it is a good addition to the library. Published by the author.

A quote: "While the act of braking later is known to produce faster lap times, it's actually the increase in speed throughout the entire braking zone which lowers the lap time." with chart on page 98 showing the effect using the time variance calc.

 

That's funny.

Scott, who is glad he saved the money he could have spent on data acquisition...ok, I didn't save it technically...I also saved the money I could have spent on books about data acquisition...ok, I didn't actually save that money either...don't anybody make any cracks about the money I could have spent actually driving the kaa...That's Right! I didn't save That money either!

 

Scott,

Without computers in cars one might have to get busy converting a Type R to carburettors. At the PRI show, even the Holley booth was labeled as Holley EFI. Even NASCAR is going to be running those fancy TAG-McLaren ECU's. It's all about the computers helping to make cars and drivers go faster. I know you are a resistor, but data logging is likely the single thing that could make one faster for the least money.

 

OH COME ON CLAUDE! Luke only turned off his targeting computer when he blew up the Death Star. He did NOT turn off his Mugen ECU.

Scott, who...I'm a "resistor"?...I like that...instead of holocaust denier or global warming denier, I'm a Resistor...yes, I resist excessive worship of datacentricism...but I don't deny that it can shed light on what would otherwise be hidden behind a veil of counterintuition...but I really think that if you can't tap The Force you're far less likely to tap The Data...