Motor sport technology conference
On July 3 Cranfield University held the inaugural History of Motorsport Technology Conference – and it was deemed a great success. Organised by Cranfield’s Motorsport Engineering and Management programme director…
As the sun shone on Sunday afternoon, the crowd of 125,000 enjoyed a fantastic British Grand Prix on one of the best racing circuits in the world. But over the…
Ryan Hunter-Reay has been driving flawlessly in recent races while favourites Dario Franchitti and Will Power have floundered amid incidents and accidents. In Toronto last weekend Hunter-Reay scored his third…
Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Johnny Herbert talk about what it means to race in the British Grand Prix. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj43RX03nsU&list=UUi7-hXZvOt5zFr2saBC6bug&index=0&feature=plcp[/youtube]
Us Brits are all fired up about the circus coming to town, to our patch, our home turf. And let’s face it, after weeks of rain (it’s supposed to be…
Fifteen or so years ago I attended a London auction, which included items from the estate of Robert McGregor Innes Ireland, one or two of which were a reminder of…
Before I wrote this I had to have a look at my last post on the website as so much has happened, I’d forgotten where I’d finished last time! So…
I didn’t attend last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Instead I took a busman’s holiday a few hours south at Spa-Francorchamps. It was the weekend of the Bikers’ Classic, the…
The last time I saw Carroll Shelby was at the Los Angeles Auto Show in the autumn. He was there to unveil the latest car to bear his name. When…
Fans of the Delta Wing know that designer Ben Bowlby is a big fan of ‘Boundary Layer Adhesion Technology’, or BLAT, which is a feature of the wingless Delta Wing’s…
Tackling the Porsche Curves at Le Mans is a daunting job at the best of times, never mind when you're behind the wheel of a Sauber-Mercedes C11 and you have…
I am sure a sizeable constituency of us will be spending all or some of the weekend camped out in the grounds of a West Sussex stately home. I can’t…
We got a small taste of the Nissan-Delta Wing’s potential at Le Mans. The revolutionary car also created a huge wave of interest both within and outside the sport and…
Cal Crutchlow will be sore in body and mind this week. For him, Sunday’s Hertz British GP at Silverstone was the ‘it Hertz’ British GP. He’s now getting his fractured…
I have a friend who is very good at what she does, but knows less about cars than I do about string theory. A month or so ago she had…
At long last IndyCar has started listening to its drivers and fans. For some time the drivers have been pleading for less downforce and more power and IndyCar’s technical director…
Audi's new hybrid e-tron quattro racer scored a resounding victory in the 80th running of the Le Mans 24 Hours as Benoit Treluyer, Marcel Fassler and Andre Lotterer scored their…