• How to find the optimum concept for your overall racecar

• How to nail down the concept before putting effort into perfecting its systems

• How to get more design points for overall racecar design

• How to create a design process that can be handed down to succeeding teams

• Energy consumption * time

• (Throttle history, rpm history) * (BSFC -or- cumulative EV efficiency maps)

• Add up fuel injector duration

Doing research, reverse engineering, setting design targets. Additional insight for teams thinking about making the EV transition.

To manage priorities, ask four questions about every design decision, in this order: 1. Is it legal or illegal? 2. How does the change affect reliability or repeatability? 3. How does the change affect overall vehicle performance over a lap? 4. What are the drivability effects?

Simply finding the combination that gives the fastest laptime is missing the point. The point is to understand the size of each effect, and how to engineer each effect to achieve the fastest laptime.

This is a logic path for understanding the performance of your car in straight line acceleration. Understand the impact of gearing and power and torque curves.

Skidpad testing, understeer gradient, handling and driver feedback, simulation with tire force and moment data.