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Racing with Eddie • Recollections of a fruitful few years in the 1980s
Rapid prototyping • The introduction of NASCAR’s Next Gen racecar has been hailed a success, but its early development was a hot and bumpy road
Playing catch up • Mercedes AMG has had a rude awakening in Formula 1 in 2022. Racecar talks to Mike Elliott, the team’s technical director, to find out how it has approached the problems
Playing the game • They say the most important thing in any category of motorsport is to read the rules. But few can claim to have read the rules quite as cleverly as those behind Haas F1 Team
In the Club • The UK’s Clubmans Sports Prototype Championship offers race engineers and car builders the freedom to develop chassis in any way they choose, provided the engine is ahead of the driver
Industrial action • In the1950s, Britain struggled to find its place in Formula 1 racing, but industrialist, Tony Vandervell, fielded cars of his own devising and took the fight to the dominant Italians
Management structure • How the systems that control racecar batteries are rapidly developing in line with new regulations for efficiency and minimum life requirements
Strategic command • ECUs have come a long way in the last 40 years. Racecar looks at the developments that have led to a new definition of the word ‘tuner’
2030: a fuel odyssey, part two • How F1’s soon-to-be-mandated Advanced Sustainable fuels stack up financially, environmentally and sustainably against the alternative options
Dynamic drive • Myth busting, misconceptions and what really drives vehicle dynamics, part one
NEWS
A curious business • ‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…’
Taking responsibility • Not just taking the easy way out and blaming the race director
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