Engineering for Race Teams
March 2, 2026
I hope everyone’s 2026 is shaping up to be a good one! It certainly looks like my 2026 is going to be busy. At the
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Getting Started in Racing: My Perspective
March 2, 2026
Recently, a few people reached out asking how to get into racing and do what I do. First, I’m genuinely honored that anyone would think
The Elephant in the Room – Artificial Intelligence
October 17, 2025
How Artificial Intelligence Impacts Driving Analytics Several months ago, I was talking to my nephew and explaining what I do—analyzing data and video to coach
Mustang Challenge at Le Mans
October 17, 2025
From the Driver’s Seat to France’s Streets One of the cool parts of being a Performance Engineer and Driver Coach is that I get to
Celebrating 10 Years of Precision Driving Analytics
October 17, 2025
Our 10 Year Milestone, One Lap At A Time Starting a business is never easy, and the saying goes that most small companies don’t last
Best Practices When Driving a Race Car
June 30, 2025
Best Practices When Driving a Race Car I do quite a bit of driver coaching whether that is in real life or on a simulator
CHOOSING THE RIGHT DRIVING LINE: ARE YOU DRIVING THE RIGHT LINE?
May 9, 2025
How to Find the Right Driving Line Probably the most fundamental aspect of driving a car on the track is to make sure that you
Some Different Ways of Looking at Driver Data
May 9, 2025
Driver Data: How Looking at it Differently can be Helpful Most of the time when I see people analyzing their data, they are looking at
A Real World Example of Using Corner Radius Data
May 9, 2025
An Example of a Driver Using Corner Radius Data A few weeks ago I was coaching one of my clients in his Spec Miata at
Using a GPS Point In Your Data
May 3, 2025
Using a GPS Point In Your Data In my last article I explained how to identify a specific GPS Point in your data. In this
How to Identify a GPS Point in Your Data
April 30, 2025
How to Identify a GPS Point in Your Data Every once in a while, the method of how to do something that you have been
Why Are You Lifting
March 3, 2025
Why Are You Lifting? Unless you are going from the throttle pedal to the brake pedal, or instead of braking for a fast corner you
Using The Derivative Function
February 3, 2025
Using The Derivative Function In my last article I talked about one of my favorite math functions which was the Integral function. In this article
Using Math Channel Integral Functions
January 3, 2025
Using Math Channel Integral Functions One of my favorite math challenge functions is the Integral function. When you take the Integral of a channel in
What is a Car’s Controller Area Network?
August 22, 2024
Using Your Car’s Controller Area Network (CAN) I want to preface this article by saying that I am NOT a Controller Area Network (CAN) or
Why Steering Data is Essential for Precision Driving
August 22, 2024
Steering Is Required: The Importance of Steering Data In the last couple of articles I wrote about different ways to analyze throttle and brake data
Throttle Application and Throttle Velocity
August 22, 2024
Throttle Application/Throttle Velocity In the throttle application graph seen above, there are four traces: Speed, Throttle (GasPedalPosition), Throttle Velocity, and Delta Time (lapdelta). The blue
Analyzing Braking Techniques to Improve Speed
June 10, 2024
Braking Techniques to Help You Improve Your Speed Who Needs Brakes? Well, the answer to that question is, everyone! Last month I wrote about different
How to Drive Faster on the Racetrack
June 10, 2024
I want to Increase My Speed: Why Am I Driving Slower? In terms of how to drive faster, grip is important. As we all know,
How to Properly Use Throttle Application and Throttle Velocity
June 10, 2024
The Importance of Throttle Application & Throttle Velocity In the graph, there are four traces: Speed, Throttle (Gas Pedal Position), Throttle Velocity, and Delta Time
Race Car Braking And The Point Of Diminishing Returns
June 10, 2024
Why Racecar Brakes are Difficult to Master I don’t know about everyone else reading this, but when I went through my first racing school, there
Why It Is Important To Prioritize Corners
June 10, 2024
Racing Corners and Why They Should be a Priority In order to get the fastest lap time, you need to figure out what racing corners
Is Coasting Bad for Racecar Driving?
June 10, 2024
Driving Fast: Is Coasting Bad? I have heard many times that the driver should either be on the throttle or the brake and they should
Analyzing Throttle Data
April 30, 2024
For driver development, the throttle, brake, and steering data traces are extremely important to look at in the data. The traces themselves provide a lot of information but I’m also going to highlight different ways of looking at the data as well as some math channels that can help us understand what is happening as well. For this article, I’m just going to focus on one data channel – the throttle pedal.
Using Corner Radius Information To Go Faster
April 30, 2024
Speed is in mph and lateral acceleration is in g’s. Multiplying the speed (mph) by 1.46667 gets the speed in ft/s and multiplying the lateral g’s by 32.17405 gets the g forces in ft/s2. The radius of the corner then ends up being in ft. It is amazing how accurate this formula can be. In Exhibit 1 I used Google Earth to look at turn one at VIR and I drew a circle that has a radius of 122 ft.
How to Effectively Use a Simulator
April 30, 2024
With the winter months upon us now, a lot of racers turn to driving on their simulator to scratch that racing itch. This is great as long as the simulator is used in a manner that helps them and doesn’t enforce bad habits. One phrase that I picked up over this past year was: “A simulator is a great place to practice bad habits.” Here are some of the bad habits that I have seen driver’s reinforce when using a simulator.