by Mark Preston As a follow on to my blog last year where I discussed how randomness drives excitement in F1, the first few races of 2011 certainly provided some interesting racing with KERs, DRS and Pirelli providing a set of variables that the teams have not yet completely mastered. However as I was watching the German … More RANDOMNESS AND EXCITEMENT – PART II
When I first started in motor sports we didn’t have a data logger and being curious I thought the only way to learn more about how the car worked on the track was to write a simulation. Again, at the time, there wasn’t much information about this sort of thing so I had to start … More SIMPLE VEHICLE SIMULATION
After the first race of the Formula One season in Bahrain there was a multitude of articles in the press and on blogs about how F1 was broken. This was quickly followed by an amazing race weekend in Melbourne where the complete opposite was seen. Is F1 broken? Can races be made more exciting? These … More RANDOMNESS AND EXCITEMENT
What are the drivers performance in motor racing? Lets start with Newtons Laws of Motion: In the absence of force, a body either is at rest or moves in a straight line with constantspeed. A body experiencing a force F experiences an acceleration a related to F by F = ma, wherem is the mass of the body. Alternatively, force is equal to the time derivative ofmomentum. Whenever a first body exerts a … More FIRST ORDER PERFORMANCE DRIVERS
There is a lot of talk in the business press regarding innovation and how critical it is to western countries, keeping our lead in the world economy. Growth is driven by innovation and I thought it would be worth having a look at innovation in the context of motorsports. Below is a classic graphic showing … More INNOVATION IN F1 – PART 1
After a number of months of planning and fund raising, Oxford YASA Motors has received funding to spin-out of the Univeristy of Oxford. The initial project started with the Morgan LifeCar and has resulted in a new high torque density motor, very much suited to the new requirements of electric/hybrid vehicles. The author was part … More OXFORD YASA MOTORS GETS FUNDING
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