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Samir Abid has been a vehicle dynamics engineer for road and racing car suspensions for over ten years.\xa0 He then created a sports engineering business to help pro and Olympic teams and athletes to optimize their performance through analytical techniques.\xa0 In addition, Samir is also competing himself in club level racing and understands the needs and dynamics of racing at all levels.\xa0 In an effort to help fellow amateur drivers, Samir created his podcast \u201cYour Data Driven\u201d and website to help share what he has learned on the top levels of sports.\xa0 His focus is on improving your race car setup, collection, interpretation, and use of data, and your driving skills and approach.\xa0 There is a ton of great information on each episode of the podcast and Samir also shares away a ton of useful tools on the Your Data Driven website, many for free.\xa0 Some of our favorites are the \u201cComplete Beginners Guide to Motorsports Data Analysis and his Ultimate Tire Guide.\xa0 Samir is constantly generating new content and you can keep up with his work on his free weekly(ish) newsletter.\xa0

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A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/SamirAbidPart1\xa0\xa0

We hope you enjoy this episode!

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Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

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Highlights from this episode include:

1)\xa0 We cover a bit of his work on the team trying to break the 2 hour barrier in the marathon and how the treadmill can be used to eject most runners when set to this pace.\xa0 A great video (with over 17 million views) on trying to keep the record marathon pace is at:\xa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRYtn0j5ccAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRYtn0j5ccA\xa0\xa0

2)\xa0 Samir's experiences when first going to race on track.\xa0 As always his "natural driving ability" was in for a shock once he competed with other racing drivers.

3)\xa0 What information is fundamental to having good quality information including video and what data to review at the track between sessions when time is usually limited.\xa0

4)\xa0 Setting goals vs analyzing results in racing and defining what a win is for each event you enter.

5)\xa0 We go into the differences between our local (US) resources to learn at an HPDE vs the race training resources more common in the UK.

6)\xa0 Samir is surprised at the concentration of cars that can be involved with budget endurance racing in many of the series in the US.\xa0 Who knows, once the pandemic is behind us, Samir may be racing with us at an event.\xa0 We hope.

7)\xa0 Bill has a great question about racing car setup priorities but fails to actually ask it in a way that any human would understand.\xa0 (Although Samir does provide an excellent answer to a horribly worded question) We will try again when we have Samir back on.\xa0 lol.

8)\xa0 The complexities involved with sharing a single car in our endurance racing series.

9)\xa0 Several of the highlights and great information that Samir has had within his podcast to this point and several of the other resources he has available on his website.

Handy Links:

https://www.yourdatadriven.com - For the newsletter

https://www.yourdatadriven.com/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-motorsports-data-analysis/ - For the course

https://www.yourdatadriven.com/the-motorsports-playbook/ - For the book

https://www.yourdatadriven.com/your-data-driven-podcast/ - For the podcast