Our next Vehicle Dynamics Online Modules will take place on 13 December 2025 and 17 January 2026
Maintaining grip with the track whilst coping with lateral and longitudinal accelerations of over 5G requires every area of a racecar to be effectively engineered and working in harmony. This is the goal of the vehicle dynamics engineer - and the key to achieving a fast lap time.
However, with over 14,500 parts on a modern Formula 1 car, understanding the interactions between each and the resulting affect on the car's dynamic behaviour is a real challenge.
Tutors and Topics for 13 December:
Global racecar performance
Delivered by Antonis Palaskas
Find out what areas of a racecar influence lap time the most and how this differs between tracks. Understand the types of corners where the most lap time can be gained and the effect of tyres, aerodynamics and power on car performance.
Aerodynamics
Delivered by Marco D’Isanto
Learn how aerodynamicists tune ride height envelopes and aero maps to optimise car set-up for different circuits.
Handling
Delivered by Panagiotis Andreadis
Understand handling, understeer, oversteer, stability, yaw damping and load sensitivity. Discover how car balance and the driving line influences handling throughout the different phases of a corner. Study friction circles, grip balance and how long run balance progression is monitored. Find out the tools engineers use to identify handling issues and the tricks used to optimise handling.
Ride modelling
Delivered by Geoff Dymott
Discover the ride and handling compromises every motorsport engineer faces. Understand the fundamentals of dampers and how to read the behaviour of different damper types using damper curves. You will also learn how to conduct an accurate ride simulation and K&C test.
Tutors and Topics for 17 January:
Simulators
Delivered by Michael Leonard
Learn how race teams use simulators for driver training as well as car set-up and gain exclusive insight into the tricks Race Engineers use when getting driver feedback and analysing data.
Tyres engineering
Delivered by Robert Farrell
Insight into how a tyre generates grip through the contact patch, the different types of degradation and the effect of track roughness.You will also learn the latest techniques race teams use to set the tyres up and manage temperatures and pressures to maximise grip.
Test Rigs
Delivered by Geoff Dymott
Insight into the different types of rigs F1 teams use to test and develop the suspension, dampers, brakes, transmission and powertrain.
*More tutors to be announced.
Find out more about the tutors:
Antonis Palaskas - Tyre Science engineer
Antonis Palaskas holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Greece and a masters in Motorsport Engineering from Oxford Brookes university. Currently, he works as Tyre Science engineer in the Vehicle Dynamics department of Williams Racing F1. In his previous job he was a Tyre Engineer for Jaguar TCS Racing in the Formula E championship.
Marco D'Isanto - Aero Performance Engineer
Marco graduated from University of Naples Federico II with a MSc in Aerospace Engineering and a major in Computational Fluid Dynamics. He started his journey into Motorsport as Wind Tunnel Engineer at Dallara, while also spending his weekends as Data Engineer in amateurish racing series.
Panagiotis Andreadis - Junior Vehicle Performance Engineer
Panagiotis studied mechanical engineering (5-year diploma) in Greece and afterwards completed a master of Science in motorsport engineering in the UK. In 2022 he joined MoneyGram Haas F1 Team as a Vehicle Dynamics Intern. After completing his internship he continued his career as a Vehicle Performance Engineer as a member of Vehicle Performance Group. His focus area is vehicle dynamics and vehicle performance optimisation using offline simulations and through the development of performance and data analysis tools. He also provides race support during race from the factory and occasionally attends testing events as a trackside performance engineer.
Michael Leonard - Simulator Test Engineer
Michael joined Cadillac F1 team as an Aero Performance Engineer in 2023 after graduating from Loughborough University with MEng Automotive Engineering. During this time he worked for Racing Point and Aston Martin Formula 1 Team for a total of 18months - spending time in Aerodynamics, R&D and Vehicle Performance. Michael now works at Atlassian Williams Racing F1 as a Simulator Test Engineer.
Geoff Dymott - Race Engineer
Geoff has worked for Williams Racing for over 20 years in a variety of roles including Vehicle Dynamics, Race / Test Data Engineer and Senior Performance Engineer. Starting his own consultancy in 2019, Geoff has also been a Race Engineer in British F4, Porsche Carrera Cup GB for Richardson Racing and more recently Century Motorsport in British GT.
Robert Farrell - Formula 1 Trackside Engineer
Robert’s professional career started with Avon Tyres Motorsport, as their motorsport product development engineer, alongside this he studied for a Masters in Advanced Motorsport Engineering. Robert worked trackside as support engineer to multiple race series, at a variety levels. His main series was ‘The Road to Indy series’ supporting Indycar and working with Indy lights (now Indy NXT). In 2021, Robert attended the MIA school of Race Engineering. In 2023 he began working with Goodyear, supporting WEC and ELMS, completing the LeMans 24 and also assisting development for LMGT3. Robert now works for Pirelli Motorsport as a Formula 1 Trackside Engineer, last year working for Haas F1 and currently assigned to Kick Sauber attending every race.
On successful completion of the Online Module, graduates are awarded an industry recognised certificate of completion from the MIA. The cost for this industry recognised learning opportunity is just £325*, per module. This price includes exclusive technical material, the opportunity to put forward questions to the tutors, access to the webinar recording and a certificate of attendance.
*Bundle packages are available if you enrol on multiple modules and there is a special loyalty offer for MIA Members and past participants. Contact elinor.morris@the-mia.com for more information.
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