Racecar Engineering

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Weathering the storm • Have we reached the point that racing in the rain carries too much risk?

Pathfinders • McLaren has taken strides towards the front of the grid with this season’s MCL60. Racecar investigates the car that has returned the Woking team to the sharp end

Student union • EVs outnumbered ICEs for the first time at Formula Student UK in 2023, but simulation, testing and validation proved to be the winning combination

Flick of the switch • Rallycross switched to electric powertrains in 2022 and, despite a recent fire at Lydden Hill, the series remains committed to battery-powered competition

Sideways glance • Drifting is now a globally recognised motorsport discipline, and one of the few entirely open race classes left. Evil34 was one of Ricardo Divila’s last projects

Time machines • The engines can produce more than 1000bhp but there’s more to Time Attack than big power figures and enormous wings, as Racecar discovered at the Brands Hatch round of this year’s UK championship

Flowing in the wind • In electric racing, where the main powertrain components are spec, the advantages to be gained from fluids cannot be underestimated

Mr. Brown’s boys • In the competitive 3.0-litre class of the 1950s, one man was determined to put England on the racing map. That man was David Brown. Aston Martin’s saga of rising fortunes culminated in the superb DBR1 of 1956-’59

Exchange programme • Though the more glamorous parts of a racecar command the headlines, cooling systems are one of the most important elements, increasingly so with the move to hybrids and EVs

Model behaviour • Tyre modelling from scratch using a second order fit approach

Lotus launches new-age Type 66

First test for IndyCar’s hybrid system

McLaren brings curtain down on link with Toyota

Mustang GTD launched

DC Electronics expands capacity in US

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New age thinking • The CTS23 show is bigger and better than ever before

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Beat the holiday blues • A walk on a beach leads to a fire blanket and rally driving experience