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Front End

Tour modified · one change at a time
Front endRear endRace day

Where are we racing?

Front end

Right front
Left front
caster split
toe

Tires

LF
RF
LR
RR
Cold psi
Durometer
Circumf. (in)
front stagger
rear stagger
Stagger is right minus left circumference. Measure with the tape at race pressure.

Scales

LF
RF
LR
RR
Weight (lb)
Ride ht (in)
total
cross
left
rear
Cross is right front plus left rear over total. More cross tightens the car, less frees it.

Springs, bars and notes

LF
RF
LR
RR
Spring (lb/in)
Shock

Chassis tuning

The fast levers. What is in the car right now. Quick adjust on the Run tab moves these and logs it.

LF
RF
LR
RR
Spring rubbers
Bump gap (in)

The run

Conditions

Quick adjust

The between-races levers. Each tap changes the sheet and goes in the log. Tap what you did, not what you wish you did.

Wedgerounds on the jack bolt. In = tighter.
0
RR rubberin = stiffer right rear = freer off the corner
0
LR rubberin = stiffer left rear = freer on entry
0
Track barboth sides. Up = freer, down = tighter
Bar preloadturns. Loading the RF down adds wedge, tighter
0
Brake biasfront %. More front = tighter on entry
RF airhalf pounds. Up = less grip, less build
RR airhalf pounds. Up = freer off the corner
LR airhalf pounds. Down = tighter on entry
LF airhalf pounds

Tire temps, straight off the track (°F)

Three per tire: inside edge, middle, outside edge. Inside is the edge toward the middle of the car. Take them within a minute of stopping, right side first.

Inside
Middle
Outside
Avg
RF
LF
RR
LR

Hot pressures (psi)

LF
RF
LR
RR
Hot
Gain

What did the driver say?

Run log

Backup

Everything lives on this phone. Export before changing phones or clearing the browser. The file restores every setup, baseline, track and run.

Track library

Edit banking or length if the track's numbers are wrong, add a track that is not here, or delete one you never run. Your saved baseline for a track lives with it.

Add a track

The car

My starting numbers

These are the numbers the sheet starts from at a medium, medium-banked track before it adjusts for the track. Change them to the chassis builder's numbers and every baseline in the app follows. Reset brings back the defaults for the car type above.

RF
LF
Camber °
Caster °
LF
RF
LR
RR
Cold psi
How much cross weight one round of the jack bolt moves on your car, how much rate one spring rubber adds, and how much cold pressure you take out per 10 degrees of hotter track. Calibrate the first one on the scales.
RF most
RF least
LF least
LF most
Degrees
The sheet never recommends camber outside this window.
On: fast tracks get more right-front camber and caster split, tight tracks more left-front camber and stagger, banked tracks a touch more right-front, flat tracks more left-front. Off: the same numbers at every track until you save a baseline there.

Wish list

Want the sheet to do something it does not? Tell us in one line and we try to have it for the next race. The button in the corner does the same thing from any page.

How this sheet was built

What it knows, where the numbers came from, what it assumes and how far to trust it. Read it here.

Order of operations at the track

  1. Before the first lap. Set the sheet's baseline for the track. Scale the car, set pressures cold, check camber and caster with the gauge, set toe with the plates, tape the tires for stagger. Save the setup.
  2. After every run. Temps first, right side first, within a minute. Then hot pressures. Then ask the driver. Enter it all on the Run tab and hit What do we change.
  3. One change at a time. The sheet gives one main change and says what to leave alone. Apply it, log it, run again.
  4. Feature setup. Load the run that felt best from the Log tab. That is your feature setup.

How the sheet reads temps

Camber comes from inside versus outside on each front tire. Right front wants the inside edge 10 to 20 degrees hotter than the outside. Left front wants outside even to a little hotter than inside. Outside that window the sheet moves camber a quarter degree, half if the run was long.

Pressure comes from the middle versus the edges. Middle hotter than both edges means too much air, cooler means too little. It also checks hot pressure gain: the right sides should gain roughly 2 to 4 psi, the lefts 1.5 to 3.

Balance comes from front average versus rear average, and left versus right. Fronts much hotter than rears is a tight car working its front tires to death. Rears hotter is loose. A left front as hot as the right front means the left front is carrying too much of the car.

The levers, in the order the sheet reaches for them: tire pressure, then front camber, then cross weight or rear stagger for balance, then toe. Springs, shocks and bars are on the sheet so you remember what is in the car, but the sheet does not tell you to change them. That is a conversation with the chassis builder.

The fast levers, between a heat and a feature

LeverTighterFreer / looser
Wedge (jack bolt)Rounds in on the LR, or out on the RRRounds out on the LR
Right-rear spring rubberTake one out (softer RR, plants it off)Put one in (stiffer RR)
Left-rear spring rubberTake one outPut one in (freer on entry)
Track barLower itRaise it
Sway bar preloadLoad it with the RF down (adds wedge)Unload it
Rear staggerLessMore
Right-rear airDown half a poundUp half a pound
Brake biasMore front (entry)More rear (entry, helps it turn in)

Half-round and half-pound steps. One lever at a time. If two levers say the same thing, use the one you can undo fastest.

Rules of thumb it uses

ThingDirection
More cross weightTighter, especially on entry and middle
More rear staggerFreer (looser) through the middle and off
More right-front negative camberMore front grip until the inside edge overheats
More toe outTurns in better, scrubs speed on the straight
Higher pressureLess grip on that tire, less heat build
Durometer climbingTire is going hard. Five points up from new, it is a practice tire.

These are generic tour-modified rules. The chassis builder's sheet wins when it disagrees.