Testimonials
Formula Professional Testimonials
Formula Professional Testimonials
"Claude Rouelle's Vehicle Engineering seminar was well laid out and very time effective. I am a senior aerospace engineer with a masters degree in aerospace engineering having worked in stability & control, flying qualities and flight controls for various companies such as Boeing-Vertol, Grumman, Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas now The Boeing Company. My passion for race cars has run deep for many years in both aerodynamic consulting and, now, race car set-up. This seminar brought together all the terminology, input and criticality of each of the separate components of a total race car: suspensions, tires, shocks, chassis rigidity, aerodynamics, weight transfers, roll centers and more. All of this besides tertiary items to make your input very effective as a race car engineer such as questionnaire templates to exploit that very important driver-engineer line of communication.
"Claude's experience and endless stories of competition are at the nth degree of suspenseful if you like auto racing and their set-up. This seminar jump-started my hands on engineering interest wholeheartedly."
Paul T. Glessner
"A complete guide to the practical application of vehicle dynamics in the motor racing environment. Comprehensive notes which tackle the rigorous maths head on, with worked examples. Claude doesn't gloss over any of the hard issues, but will happily digress to answer even the most difficult questions. Thoroughly worthwhile for any serious race engineer."
Ross Holder,
Racing Consulting Engineer,
Deep Thought Pty Ltd, Australia
"As a new participant in auto racing, this class has brought me up to speed in a way no text book is capable of doing. The explanation of vehicle kinematics how to apply data acquisition is excellent. I highly recommend this class to anyone wanting to get the most of data acquisition."
Garrett Drysdale,
Engineer/Driver Formula Mazda, Drysdale Motorsports
"My fascination of how to make any car work better has been with me since I was a young man.
"Like most teenagers, I did a lot of stupid things unknowingly because I didn't know better. Later, after getting a degree in engineering, I started to apply that knowledge and the results continued to improve, if for no other reason than I kept track of what I was doing and tried to quantify the results.
"Decades went by and I plugged away at trying to better understand what the cars were doing, only now I was focusing 100% on their just before, during and just after corners. I studied every book on the subject I could get my hands on, but still all the pieces didn't quite make sense. some important issues remained un-addressed or not clearly enough defined.
"When I saw Claude Rouelle's Vehicle Dynamics Seminar advertised and read what could be learned, I was thrilled that maybe this was the force that would put it all together in my mind. I took the course and was blown away at the comprehension of Claude's knowledge and understanding, but equally so by his incredible patience with my ceaseless questions - I just didn't want to move on until I fully understood the subject. By the second day, it was clear that I wasn't going to get it all and that I would just have to take the class again a year or so later, but what I did get was quantum leaps in my baseline knowledge, and most importantly, how to look at and evaluate in logical steps what a race car is doing."
Craig Watkins,
Team Engineer for Johannes van Overbeek and Justin Marks
Porsche 996 Cup cars Speedvision World Challenge GT series G&W Motorsports
"The course effectively starts at the basics, and carries to the more complex use of data acquisition for optimizing race car performance. The seminar utilizes all aspects of vehicle dynamics, which is imperative for achieving peak performance. A definite must for anyone involved in race car set-up!"
Phil Reia,
Damper Technician,
DYNAMIC Suspensions
"I was pleasantly surprised to find much more information on race car dynamics than I ever imagined could be available in one place ... I would highly recommend the seminar to anyone in the racing industry that I do not have to race against."
Chris Harrison, Phoenix AZ
"You took an immensely complex subject and broke it down into components that could be assimilated by audience members of various levels of experience. The graphics were well done and easily understood, and the supporting text and real-life examples helped with the comprehension. I find I apply the knowledge more in my SCCA Formula racing than my professional Vintage Racing, but at every event, I seem to find one or more applications of the information."
Ian Macpherson,
Technical Director, Vintage Racing Services,
Stratford, CT, USA
"I found the subject matter covered fascinating. The practical examples you were able to give us added a valuable new dimension to the work I felt I already understood. I have been able to make use of a lot of the work with my own students and I am sure they have benefited from the course as well! The extra information you sent after the course was also very welcome."
Roger Dowden,
Director of Studies Automotive Engineering,
Swansea Institute, UK
"The presentation of concepts in a visual format in addition to examples truly aids in the understanding of vehicle dynamics and helps one to think even further along into complex problems.
"I really enjoyed my time at the seminar and would recommend to anyone from the top on down to the club racer looking for that slight edge."
Matt Beckman
"I have appreciated this seminar because it allows for rapid growth in the execution of tasks assigned to the engineer since he can understand what is being looked for almost before it is asked of him.
"This seminar presents perfectly the tasks of one responsible for the acquisition of data for a large team."
Pierre-Alexis TETAZ,
Data acquisition engineer Oreca Team Viper
"Practical and direct advice to efficiently put vehicle dynamics knowledge into action. A useful formation for a learner who wants to discover new principles of analysis or for a theoretician who wants to know how to verify his hypotheses during a test."
Eric Fenaux,
Test and development engineer PSA Peugeot Citroen France
"Those of us at Michelin would like to think that all racecar performance depends on the way our products work. Claude has forced us to consider that other vehicle parameters may have some major influence too. What a disappointment! But what an opportunity!
"It would be incomplete to speak about Claude Rouelle's seminar in just a simple word. The very concrete, rigorous and exhaustive content makes this educational opportunity invaluable for those in the racing car business."
Pascal Vasselon,
Michelin's F1 Project Manager
Formula Student Testimonials
"Exellent seminar - very informative and a true eye-opener. I teach Vehicle Dynamics to university students, thinking a knew a bit about the essentials of VD - I was wrong! Learned a huge amount of things during the course!"
Nicolas Tygesen, Faculty Advisor, Vehicle Dynamics teacher, Indianapolis, USA
"Very good seminar. Backed up very well with loads of practical examples/experience."
Andrew Bradley, Oxford Brookes University
"Very interesting seminar with a lot of information you normally don't get (especially pictures and info concerning f1 race cars). The bulky documentation and the large amount of extra information is very helpful for the rework of the stuff. All together: A++"
Tobias Maurer, Munich Motorsport
"Claude, you are really skilled in explaining a difficult subject in a easily understandable way."
Michael Johne, BA Racing Team
"Never learned so much in 3 days. very good seminar. the information density is high and it gets hard in the evening but still it stays so interesting that you don't want it to end."
Stefan Smedek, Rennstall Esslingen
"A must for a racing enthusiast!"
Matthias Redl, TU Vienna
"The combination of the presentation, examples and stories made the seminar unique and I learned far more than just vehicle dynamics."
Christian Paul, Joanneum racing Graz
"It was not only the technical hard fact that made it a pleasure to attend it but very much the many interesting stories Claude told us which had a lot of important "soft skill information" for us."
Wilhelm Vallant, U.A.S. Graz
"I am still very impressed how much knowledge Claude was able to teach us in the short time."
Stefan Pagenberg, Munich Motorsport
"I felt the topics covered were very relevant and were covered in sufficient detail for the level of this class. I also enjoyed the stories and shared knowledge from Claude's experience in the field."
Kell Kirby, UNC Charlotte
"I really enjoyed the seminar. I understood most of the concepts from other reading (Milliken and Milliken, Smith etc.), but the seminar gave me ideas about ballpark numbers and how best to use the information."
Paul Wood-Stotesbury, University of Auckland
"The physical explanations by Claude were very good. Explaining something by using an object, image or video makes it much easier for us to understand, rather than just talking about it."
Matthew King, RMIT Electric FSAE Racing Team
"The seminar was brilliant. I have spent many hours trying to understand the material on texts such as Milliken and Millken and Tune to win by Carroll Smith. I feel through these texts I was developing a sound understanding of vehicle dynamics and car design. However, attending Optimum G seminar has allowed me to link each aspect together which will allow me to design a complete package in future years"
Craig Innes, University of Wollongong
"This was the most i have ever learned in three days largely attributed to the intense content and Claude’s teaching style."
Steve Lundy, Edith Cowan University Racing
"None can teach a subject as boring and tedious as any sort of dynamics, however Claude managed to prove me wrong. He kept the audience captivated and managed to connect with the audience on a personal level."
Brennan Farrell, Australian Defence Force Academy
"This seminar certainly was the best of all the seminars i have attended till date. There are many good seminars on the same syllabus but Claude surely makes this seminar outstanding by adding the right vibrancy to it."
Shivam Kranti, Team Pravega
"The information and topics covered were very very good. Claude is one of the most passionate teachers/presenters I have come across. He is passionate about motorsport but is also a good teacher."
Alex Stumpf, Latrobe University
"Although the seminar is intense in terms of hours and amount of content, Claude made a very good job at keeping everybody interested and listening to what he had to say. The many practical examples used to explain most subjects helped a lot my understanding of the seminar's content. The biggest difference from my previous formation in race car dynamics was the practical insight that only a person with Claude's experience can give."
Diogo Baptista, Oxford Brookes University
"The content was very intense, and very useful. Everything that was discussed was very beneficial, and Claude did a great job of breaking up the seminar and keeping the atmosphere very upbeat and fun to be in. The graphs, data and examples were fascinating and an awesome resource."
Keaton Hilby, Wisconsin Racing
