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Saturday, August 18, 2012

The 1982 Grand Prix season: A bibliography

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Autocourse 1982 (Maurice Hamilton). Decent race reports from Maurice Hamilton, old-style lapcharts, and an excellent technical survey f...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Autosport and 1982

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A 1982 extravaganza is promised this week, both in Autosport magazine, and on Autosport.com . The latter, in particular, are undertaking to...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Experimental British Nuclear Reactors

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The book featured here was published by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in 1960. It contains cutaway drawings of several British ...
Saturday, August 04, 2012

The Grid Girls' Guide to Wind-tunnel/CFD Correlation

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A number of grid girls have contacted me recently, complaining that the F1 Show on SkySports fails to provide the level of informative tec...
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Friday, August 03, 2012

A query about the BT42/44

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Gordon Murray's place in the F1 design pantheon is assured, but a question arises over the aerodynamics of the iconic BT42 and BT44. ...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Gordon Murray's future F1 vision

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This month's Motorsport Magazine revisits Gordon Murray's year 2000 vision for the future of Formula 1 (pictured above): a larg...
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The Great Interregnum

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A large collection of dullards have recently assembled in London, and appear to be generating more than a modicum of media attention. Normal...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Red Bull's engine maps

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Mark Hughes has a revealing explanation on the Sky F1 website of the engine map loophole exploited by Red Bull last weekend. As the regulat...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

A solution to Silverstone's parking problems?

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Following the quagmire-induced congestion at Silverstone last week, the circuit has discounted the possibility of transforming the grass ...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Aerodynamic wheel-wing interaction

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In 2007 Martinus van den Berg published a PhD thesis on the interaction between a rotating wheel and an inverted wing. The research was spo...
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Thursday, July 05, 2012

A guide to the Higgs boson for the perplexed

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Mass and the Higgs field The standard model of particle physics is an application of quantum field theory, and the latter holds that th...
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