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Thursday, May 02, 2013

Tyre feathering

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"If a new tyre is punished too heavily, too quickly, its critical tread compound temperature may be exceeded and blisters will appear a...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

BBC Sport and Potential Flow theory

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It is a fact, sadly unacknowledged, that BBC Sport's default background animation represents a doublet from Potential Flow theory. ...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

Descent to bathos

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Whilst the odiferous obligations of life suggest a strictly utilitarian approach to bathroom use amongst much of the population, there are...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

City-Link's delivery standards

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Autocourse 2012-13 arrived today. Courtesy of City-Link , it was left unprotected, outside the house, on one of the wettest days of the y...
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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Red Bull's double-DRS

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Is there a connection between Red Bull's new double-DRS system , and their unique 'underpass' duct? To recall, the underpa...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Lasers, plasmas and diffusers

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The first laser, invented in 1960 by Theodore Maiman, an engineer-turned-physicist, was a product of the aerospace industry. Maiman was wo...
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Saturday, October 06, 2012

Race strategy equations

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 William Mulholland, erstwhile Vehicle Dynamics Engineer for McLaren Inter-Planetary, wrote an interesting introduction to the mathemati...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Michael Schumacher's marmite nightmare

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Richard Feynman once remarked that experimental particle physics is somewhat akin to smashing watches together, and examining the various g...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Quasi-particles

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A recent BBC Horizon documentary on the smallest things in the universe, claimed to present experimental proof that the electron has be...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Ride-height matters

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There was a suggestion on this blog at the beginning of the season that Mercedes's DRS-activated F-duct might be utilis...
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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...
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