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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Lotus 72 CFD

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For those interested in a bit of retrospective CFD, I've written an aerodynamic analysis of the 1970 Lotus 72, as a contribution to M...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

The legality of Brabham's 1983 World Championship

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A couple of recent pieces in the motorsport press have raised separate issues over the legality of the Brabham-BMW which won the 1983 World ...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Ferrari's illegal brake ducts

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When Ferrari launched their 1976 car, the 312T2, it appeared with a pair of outrageous front brake-duct appendages. These extended forwar...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Rush and the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix

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Rush is currently No. 1 at the UK box-office, and Ron Howard's populist mix of stereotypical rivalry, heroism, sex and danger, is sure...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Chapman, side-thrust, and the America's Cup

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In the summer of 1975, Colin Chapman composed a list of requirements for a Future F1 Car.  Reproduced in Karl Ludvigsen's excellent engi...
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Friday, August 16, 2013

What is a quantum field?

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Philosopher of Physics Meinard Kuhlmann has a brilliant article, What is real? , in the August 2013 edition of Scientific American. Kuhlm...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Front-wing vortex breakdown

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With the assistance of Mercedes GP, Jacques Heyder-Bruckner completed a PhD thesis in 2011 which analysed the front wing-wheel interaction...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

The Lynx effect

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Hidden within the dark torrent of subliminal messages communicated by commercial advertising and branding, it seems that aerodynamic info...
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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