McCabism

Contrary to the hypothesis suggested in the previous post, I suspect that non-aerodynamic factors are dominant in the formation of at leas...

Here's an interesting puzzle for armchair aerodynamicists: why are the rose petals deposited in the pattern depicted in the photo on t...

Last year, I challenged readers to identify the racing driver responsible for the following vivid account of what it feels like to be '...

In 2003, Mary Poovey wrote a disturbing analysis of modern financial culture, Can Numbers Ensure Honesty? . Published in the Notices of the ...

"You're fucking shit mate!" It was not the first time the leather-jacketed, middle-aged man standing a few yards to my lef...

More than twenty years ago, philosopher of science David Albert suggested that the global state of the universe might be akin to a vacuum st...

Due to some recent changes in location, an opportunity arose to sample the comparative quality of the sausage rolls produced by three well...

One of Red Bull's technical trademarks is the refusal to abandon an idea just because it doesn't work at the first attempt. At the...

Courtesy of Ultimatecarpage.com , here's some modern photos of the 1982 McLaren MP4/1B, clearly showing how the exhausts were used to...

Can you see the way the wind is blowing? Historically, there have been seven main performance differentiators in Formula One: engines, cha...

Conventional wisdom holds that Formula One's first exhaust-blown diffuser appeared on the Renault RE40 in 1983. “The exhaust-blown diff...