andylaurence wrote:I noticed it at 0:09-0:11 as a large and varied steering force coupled to a small oscillation of the wheel, suggesting the driver was balancing the rear of the car with the steering inputs. There's no corrective input or oscillation of force in the same way throughout the trace, with the exception of some corrective action at 0:49. The lack of oscillations at high speed (0:05-0:07 and 0:39-0:40) suggest that the car is more stable. I've not seen steering torque data before though, so perhaps this is normal.
Interesting point. Our drivers tend to like a car that is pretty loose at low speed. The courses that it runs on tends to have a lot of very tight hairpins and such so drivers like a car that can rotate at low speeds. Conversely they tend to like a car that pushes (at least a little) at higher speeds (in this case higher is like 45+ mph). We tend to run our Cp pretty substantially rearward of our CG because most of the high speed maneuvers are big offset slaloms which can get hairy with a car that is loose.
