As well as on-road training, we run a series of classroom seminars aimed at letting you learn more about your car and how it behaves.

Vehicle Dynamics for Track Days

Track days are becoming ever more popular – to such a degree that manufacturers are now producing their own 'track day specials', cars such as the BMW M3 CSL, Ferrari's 360CS and the Porsche 911 GT3-RS, notwithstanding the evergreen Caterham 7 and other open-wheeled sports cars. For those of us without the deep pockets required to buy or run such cars, improving your usual track day car is the only option. There is a huge marketplace of track day parts and while some of these improve your car, there are some that will actually decrease your on-track performance.

Until recently, the driver was the most important person in a racing team. Now it is the engineers who rule the roost. Gone are the days when a talented driver could bully a mediocre car into winning positions. The same applies to track days – a well-sorted lower powered car will be significantly more capable than a mediocre more powerful car, irrespective of driving talent. Race engineers are very expensive, so the cost-effective option is to train yourself to be your own engineer.

The Cadence Vehicle Dynamics for Trackdays course intends to do just that. It will teach you the science behind making cars accelerate, brake and corner, and explain what fitting different parts will do to change the way your car behaves when on track.

Datalogging with the DL-1

The latest toy to fit to your car for track days is a data logging system. But although these systems are now cheap and easy to fit, converting data into sensible results is another matter. Our data logging course will show how to connect a datalogging system, wire in additional sensors and test its operation.

More importantly, the course teaches you how to convert the data recorded into ways of measuring and improving your performance on track.