Recent content by Mactech

Highly unlikely! We know that after the Red Bull car was hoisted aloft in Monaco that their floor is more complex than most others in F1. I think that that they have been able to develop this using all their well correlated tools and get the results that they see in simulation, on the circuit...

Autocar has just released it's 'first drive' opinion of the Macan EV...

Distorted timeline? My good friend Martin Brundle had a really nasty shunt at Monaco in 1984. He was stopped going out in the spare car just after this by Ken Tyrrell when he asked which way he should turn out of the pitroad....:eek: Safety and medical procedures have improved since then! He...

That could well be the secret of Max and the Red Bull car, but I'd like to offer an even more far fetched theory.... Correlation I believe that under the direction of Adrian Newey, the Red Bull team are the leaders in getting the 'holy trinity' of the mechanical modelling, the wind tunnel...

I doubt it even registered given he was able to apply exactly the right amount of ‘oppo’ in nanoseconds, and lost hardly a tenth in lap time. He has done it a few times before,(!) and with that comes the learning of how much opposite lock to apply, how quickly and the even trickier bit, when...

It could be that Lance is one of the quickest 100 drivers in the world, but that's not really good enough when there are only 20 seats in F1. You need a great deal more than to be sporadically quick.

I think we saw an example of this after the safety car today when Stroll appeared to have run out of bandwidth and into Ricciardo.... :dk::doh:

I’m sad enough to have watched it live……and I’m now back in front of my tv after being out with the dogs …

It seems that the 'torque demand' pedal in the current crop of F1 cars is almost infinitely adjustable via software, so I suspect it tells us more about the the foot controlling the pedal on this occasion. Not heard of Jesus Savez, was he any good? 🤭 He has been around a little while now, even...

So which one of us had the top 3 in Sprint qualifying all Mercedes powered.:dk:

Yes, correct! We would not normally fit the roll bar links on until the car has been on the flat patch for set up. Once the wheels are pointing the right ways, the spring platforms will be adjusted to get the corner weights correct, as below: Once we have the car without cross weight, we adjust...

On Monday I went down to a village just outside Silverstone to take some parts for the 'nut and bolt' rebuild of our classic Formula Ford car. I originally build the car new in 1979 here in Norfolk for a young South American driver. The car won championships in period and has won the Classic...

I had to take some parts over to Silverstone today and check on the rebuild of our Classic Formula Ford race car. Just because I can, I decided to take the EV. I couldn't have picked a nicer day! We had sun, rain, gales, hail and temperatures down to 5 deg on my way back near Bedford. The car...

The Moto GP stars put on a spectacular show in the US race yesterday. Great racing, thrills and spills, many possible winners and edge of the seat stuff. It has given Liberty Media a great springboard for the growth of MotoGP in the Sates and worldwide. Let's hope they capitalise on that, after...

Not on the road, but on a Mercedes ML in a field along my dog walk, where agricultural drainage contractors were at work. Y8 WET A question obviously asked by the land owners when effective drainage can be installed.....