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Monday, December 31, 2018

Andrew Ridgeley crashes at Brands

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It's the 1986 Cellnet Superprix, the rain is relentless, and it's dark, very dark. Too dark, in fact, for those amateur photographe...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Brands Hatch F3000 1987

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Second installment of the McCabism photographic archive. The place once again is Brands Hatch, this time for a round of the European F3000 ...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Brands Hatch Tyre Test 1986

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Time to dip into the McCabism personal photographic archive. The occasion here is the 1986 pre-Grand Prix Tyre Test at Brands Hatch. Prope...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

Understanding tyre compound deltas

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Pirelli revealed at the beginning of the 2018 F1 season that it was using new software to help it choose the three tyre compounds availabl...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Front-wing in yaw

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Armchair aerodynamicists might be interested in a 2015 paper, ' Aerodynamic characteristics of a wing-and-flap in ground effect and yaw...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Local cosmography and the Wiener filter

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The local cosmic neighbourhood has recently been mapped in spectacular fashion by the Cosmicflows research programme, yielding papers in N...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

Neural networks and the neutron transport equation

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The Monte Carlo simulation technique was conceived at Los Alamos in the late 1940s by Stanislaw Ulam and John von Neumann with a specific...
Wednesday, November 01, 2017

The problem with Fred Pearce

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Environmental journalist Fred Pearce published an article on William Penney (‘ Atomic Briton who brought home the bomb ’) in NewScientis...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Diffusers and rear-wheel wakes

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There is a persistent notion amongst some Formula One technical analysts that the low pressure wake behind the rear wheels can be connected...
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Sunday, October 08, 2017

Why nuclear disarmament is wrong

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The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this week to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a coalition of 468 non-g...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

F1 1980 - Separation and curvature

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As noted in the previous post, the airflow in the aft section of a venturi duct has a propensity to separate. Whilst the primary cause of ...
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