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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Air Curtains

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The July edition of RaceTech Magazine has an excellent, and timely article by Pat Symonds on the subject of exhaust-blown diffusers (EBDs)....
Friday, June 24, 2011

Water-blown diffusers

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Exhaust-blown diffusers are to be eradicated from Formula 1, with off-throttle blowing banned from the British Grand Prix in a couple of we...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Photosynthesis and plutonium

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Nuclear reactors are naturally-occurring phenomena. Not only that, but ancient bacteria can be held responsible for the production of at lea...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Hairpin vortices and other turbulent phenomena

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Living and dying within the turbulent boundary layers and wakes of every Formula 1 car, is a taxonomical cornucopia of transient hydrodynami...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Lewis Hamilton's Canadian Grand Prix

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"Hamilton is almost certainly the fastest driver in F1...But then why is that not being translated into results? The answer, like reali...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Fangio, Pirelli and the Nurburgring

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August 4th, 1957. The Nurburgring. Lap 21 of the 22-lap German Grand Prix. At the age of 46, Juan Manuel Fangio is driving the race of his l...
Monday, June 06, 2011

The inspiration behind Ferrari's riblets?

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Ferrari reportedly used riblets on the undersurface of their front-wing at the Turkish Grand Prix last month. At the time, Autosport 's...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Quantum mechanics and consciousness

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The Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a substantially revised version of its entry on Quantum Approaches to Consciousness , an...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Overtaking at Loews

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A difficult qualifying session had consigned him to a lowly grid position; surely, at Monaco, it would be difficult to make much progress fr...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Coulthard takes a dip

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Rarely have I seen anything quite as funny, in the slapstick sense, as Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard taking brief, unwilling, freefall t...
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Lewis Hamilton's Monaco Grand Prix

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"For those regarded as warriors, when engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior's only concern." (...
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