racing
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Motorsport Engineering – Understeer and Oversteer
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Most general racing enthusiasts will know what understeer and oversteer is. Understeer is to do with the front wheels of the vehicle and means that they don’t want to turn at the same rate you want to. This can be caused by going to fast in to the corner, or not having enough grip for…
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Motorsport Engineering – Aerodynamics
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Continuing on from yesterday, now we move on to aerodynamics! This is definitely my favourite area of ‘technology in motorsport’. There is so much to explain, yet so little time! After learning about some really cool things in Formula One aerodynamics, I decided to share this with the Brio team. Not only do Formula One…
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Racing car design liveries
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OK, so I have written about racing helmet designs, but now, I would like to do a post about racing car designs this time. I will specifically be talking about the V8 Supercar Championship car liveries for 2011. A great livery this year, is the Jack Daniels Racing cars. They have not really changed their…