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Engineer tire and brake grip that lasts

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Track: Engineering

Difficulty: advanced

Estimated duration: 384 minutes

Coverage: 7 modules, 28 lessons

Course Overview​

For advanced owner-drivers, engineers, and crew leads who already understand basic vehicle dynamics, this course turns tires and brakes into engineering decisions about pressure, temperature, construction, brake force, bias, and validation. The outcome is a repeatable way to predict, test, and manage the two contact-patch systems before the next session or race stint.

Modules​

  • Define the shared grip budget - 4 lessons - Build the tire-and-brake mental model from the contact patch outward before choosing parts or changing bias.
  • Design the tire operating window - 4 lessons - Treat pressure, temperature, construction, compound, wear, and damage as design variables instead of afterthoughts.
  • Engineer brake force and bias - 4 lessons - Use load transfer, required friction, and lockup prediction to reason about brake balance instead of guessing at the knob.
  • Specify friction materials and hardware - 4 lessons - Choose pad, rotor, and brake-system hardware through friction behavior, thermal exposure, and evidence rather than catalog labels.
  • Control heat across a session - 4 lessons - Model tires and brakes as systems whose behavior changes with warm-up, repeated loading, cooling, and post-run evidence.
  • Integrate driver, data, and controls - 4 lessons - Translate symptoms from the driver, vehicle controls, and simple measurements into tire-and-brake engineering hypotheses.
  • Validate and hand off a working spec - 4 lessons - Turn tire and brake engineering choices into a test matrix, evidence trail, and handoff package for setup and operations.

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