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Who is Bill Mitchell?

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I have written four SAE papers for the Motorsports Engineering Conferences. These are available from SAE for $10 or $8 for SAE members. They can be delivered by physical mail or E-mail. They can be faxed for $30 or $24 for SAE members. SAE can be accessed at http://www.sae.org/

Driving the Traction Circle was presented at the  2004 Conference. This paper on racing lines was based on research done with the Driving Simulator and then tested by Roger Schroer at the Transportation Research Center.  The reference number is SAE 2004-01-3534. You can access the paper at the SAE web site.

There was a related story “Analyzing Lines” in Race Car Engineering, volume 14 number 3.

Training Test Drivers with Data Acquisition  was presented at the 2000 Conference. This paper presented evaluation techniques for evaluating driving skills. It is one of very few papers on actually using data acquisition. This paper was written by myself and Mike Unger. Roger Schroer and Dennis B. Grisez of  the Transportation Research Center in Ohio.  The reference number is SAE 2000-01-3568. You can access the paper at the SAE web site.

I presented two papers at the 1998 Conference 

Asymmetric Roll Centers - SAE 983085.

A Method for Data Alignment - SAE 983087.