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News - Are Racing Bucket Seats More Comfortable Than The Stock Seats?
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Are Racing Bucket Seats More Comfortable Than The Stock Seats?

The first consideration for a racing seat is how to hold the person in place, both sides of the thighs, both sides of the waist and the large ears on both sides of the head, in order to hold the body in place during large lateral corners. The design uses a standard mannequin made of several height sizes (most manufacturers use European mannequins) and some small manufacturers only make one size, so if you buy one that doesn’t fit, you need to pour a mould of the buttocks and waist with styrofoam and pad it in the bench as a filler to avoid violent vibrations when people are wobbling in it. The seats are made of thin foam, which has poor vibration isolation but a direct physical feel. Only a single driving position is considered, some can only adjust the angle of the backrest, some are not adjustable as a whole (reducing the adjustment mechanism to be lighter), adjusting the position is done by adjusting the overall elevation angle through the seat bracket. No movement adjustment is considered, only the use of a single movement to hold the person in place

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The primary point of consideration for civil vehicle seating is comfort. There are a bunch of master’s and doctoral theses published in this field every year. There are all sorts of angles of research: vibration, ergonomics, pressure distribution, etc. The point of consideration is to adapt to the target group with a single size (a car cannot be equipped with several stools to choose from, the cost is too high, unless there are some options for high-end models). So the adjustability is very high, 6 way adjustable, 8 way adjustable, or even 80,000 way adjustable. The design of the sponge needs to take into account the pressure distribution on the body, and the shape and posture needs to be designed to ensure that the joints are within a comfortable range of movement. Some sports models will be fitted with sportier seats, which frankly means giving up part of the comfort (vibration isolation) to emphasise the physical sensation of vibration in order to create a “sporty atmosphere”, but its primary point is still comfort. The skeleton of the seat needs to be designed with crash safety in mind. It is important to emphasise that these designs are not the result of a head start, but of a mathematical and physical model, a large number of expensive sensors, experiments, software calculations and huge amounts of money. And all this design is hidden in a seemingly unadorned seat, which is only visible to the consumer as a small sofa made of what appears to be leather or velvet.
Again, something for racing ≠ something awesome. Racing stuff is more often produced in small batches or even in single pieces, and is therefore expensive. The starting point for design is also completely different from that of a civilian car.


Post time: Nov-21-2022