Winning a safari rally race needs a well-thought strategies accompanied with driving skills and experience. You can be a very skilled driver but without strategizing properly, your ambitions of becoming a champion will remain a mirage. As a driver you need to know how to manouvre when driving in terrible terrains. You should know how to negotiate corner at a very high speed. Car maintenance is also very important. Your car should always be ready for a race. Having a good mechanic who keeps the car in good shape and condition is necessary. A good mechanic knows how the car behaves when subjected to various conditions. Any traces of breakdown are determined and then quashed. A well-maintained car should have safety measures incorporated within it. The car should contain all the necessary safety gears. Having a strategist who is smart upstairs will help you in planning yourself. The strategist will design theoretical winning strategies based on relevant mathematical calculations. We are going to learn how you can implement mathematical concepts in your strategies to win a safari rally race.
Safari rally race
Modern cars today are fitted with automated systems for monitoring movements, directing drivers based on google maps, cameras for capturing front and end views, and tracking the car. These modern features are very important in racing competition. The driver can time himself and track the progress while in the race. Fitted cameras help in viewing the terrain enabling the driver to know what lies ahead. They help drivers in viewing what is at the back without necessarily using side mirrors. The driver can strategize on how to conquer challenges ahead as fast as possible. At times rally drivers take wrong route while racing. Google maps aid in eliminating such challenges. They give directions on the route to follow.
Before participating in a rally race, strategist needs to take a preliminary visit to the place where the race will occur. This will make him or her understand the terrain and adjust his or her strategies to align with the environment. The strategist will know the number of corners that are in the route to be used. Based on the terrain and the distance to be covered, he or she can approximate the fastest time for completing the race. The visit also enables him to learn the weather patterns of the environment prior to the competition. Understanding weather patterns is key in designing strategies for mitigating effects of poor road conditions. The car can also be fitted with tyres that can sustain bad weather especially in muddy routes. The driver needs to be psychologically prepared on how he or she is going to emerge victorious in such muddy routes. Having good strategies in advance is a positive trajectory towards winning the race.
If after preliminary visit, your findings are as follows: the total distance to be covered is 240 kilometers and there are three bends each having curvature radius of 35 meters with the coefficient of static friction of 0.523, it is now time to design strategies for winning the race. You need to calculate the maximum speed the driver will use to negotiate those corners without toppling. You need to calculate the velocity the car will be moving at to complete the race within the targeted time. After calculations, this information will be fed into the car’s automated system to help in tracking the progress. The co-driver will ensure that the race proceeds as planned. In the process of designing how the race will proceed, some factors need to be held constant. For example, when calculating the average velocity the car will be moving at to finish the race in a stipulated timeframe, you will assume the existence of those three bends. However, they will be factored in when negotiating corners. In this case, when the race is to be completed in an hour time, average velocity can be proximated as follows:
1. V = s/t, whereby V represents velocity in m/s, s represents displacement in meters and t represents time in seconds.
2. If displacement (s) is 360 kilometers and time (t) needed to complete the race is 1 hour.
1 hour = 3600 seconds. 360km = 36000
V = 36000 ÷ 3600 = 10 m/s
For the driver to cover 360 kilometers in an hour, he or she needs to drive at an average velocity of 10 m/s holding other factors constant. Remember the route has three bends. Therefore, the driver needs to know the maximum velocity he or she can use to safely negotiate the corner. This velocity can be calculated as follows:
1. Vmax = √(µsgr), whereby Vmax is the maximum velocity in m/s, µs is the coefficient of static friction, g is the force of gravity (9.80m/s) and r is the radius of curve in meters.
When g = 9.80 m/s2, µs = 0.523 and r = 35 meters,
Vmax = √(0.523 × 9.80 × 35) = 13.4 m/s
Since the car will be moving at an average velocity of 10 m/s that is less than the maximum velocity required to safely negotiate the corner, the driver can comfortably pass through the bend.
This is an example of how mathematics can be used to lay strategies for winning a race. The co-driver needs to ensure that all the laid strategies are adhered to during the race. Winning competition is a mind game.
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