In the world of motorsports, milliseconds can be the difference between victory and defeat. To stay ahead of the curve, racing teams and engineers rely on a wealth of data collected from the most advanced sensors and technology embedded in modern race cars. This course is designed to empower you with the knowledge and expertise required to optimize, interpret and analyse this data for ultimate performance.

The seminar is developed for professionals in the motorsport industry and is the ideal follow-up for the ‘Race Car Performance Engineering’ and ‘Race Car Data Acquisition & Analysis’ seminars.

Over the period of 3 days the participants will explore data-driven techniques to unlock performance from car, driver and tires. These techniques and insights are not just valuable but immediately applicable to any type of race car and across diverse championships.

COURSE OUTLINE:

DAY 1:

• Course introduction
• Introduction to metrics-based data analysis
• Creating KPIs
• Special math channels for KPI creation
• Putting together a KPI database
• Working with Spotfire
• Software introduction
• Importing data into Spotfire
• The data canvas
• Data visualization in Spotfire
• Creating templates
• Trendlines
• Filtering
• Creating calculated channels
• Case studies
• F1 porpoising analysis
• Importing data from any data acquisition system in Spotfire
• Analyzing timing data with Spotfire

DAY 2:

• Vehicle vitals: tracking and ensuring reliability
• The main car performance metrics
• Grip and balance
• Calculating grip factors
• Calculating car balance
• Calculating stability
• Track characterization metrics
• Driver performance metrics
• Acceleration
• Braking
• Cornering
• The driving line
• Corner radius
• Advanced driving line metrics
• What is the correct driving line?
• Braking performance
• Brake energy and power
• Brake cooling / temperature management

DAY 3:

• Aerodynamics
• Working with pitot data
• Downforce, drag and aerobalance
• Setup exploration on an LMP3 car
• Tires
• Tire pressure measurement
• Tire temperature measurement
• Tire operating windows
• Calculating tire energies
• The differential
• Limited slip differentials
• Preload, ramp angles and friction faces effects
• Suspension geometry
• Introduction to Race.Software
• Roll centers
• Suspension ‘antis’
• Bumpsteer
• Case study LMP3 front suspension kinematics

Upcoming seminar:

4-6 Rue des Trois Cantons
L-3980 Wickrange
Luxembourg

  28 – 30 January 2026

Registration fee: € 1050,-

Students and FSAE members: € 850,-

Prices are excluding VAT

The seminar fee includes:

• Lunch, drinks and refreshments during the 3 seminar days
• Seminar presentation in digital format
• 14-day trial licence of Race.Software suspension kinematics simulation software
• 30-day trial licence of Spotfire Analytics
• Certificate of course completion

GRIDX is located 20 minutes from LUX international airport.