Categories: Engines, Dynos, Fuel, Horsepower, Materials, Oil, Torque
Engine Blowups: A Consequence of the Testing Ban?
03/01/09 | by diandra ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: Engines, Materials, Las Vegas, Grip, Roush Fenway Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing, Brian Vickers, Horsepower, Testing, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota, Michael Waltrip, David Reutimann
| Categories: Engines, Materials, Las Vegas, Grip, Roush Fenway Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing, Brian Vickers, Horsepower, Testing, Joe Gibbs Racing, Toyota, Michael Waltrip, David Reutimann The stock car science blog has been a little behind due to a really big project I've been working on that has taken up every spare moment of writing time the last few months. The good news is that there (finally) will be an announcement at Texas Motor Sp… more »
The Scientific Way to Fix the COT
09/09/08 | by diandra | Categories: Engines, Racing, Grey Areas, Gears, Center of Gravity, Aerodynamics, Downforce
| Categories: Engines, Racing, Grey Areas, Gears, Center of Gravity, Aerodynamics, Downforce Congrats! If you're reading this, it means that they turned on the Large Hadron Collider without creating any black holes...yet.
If there's one question I get when I speak it is: "If they were going to design a car from scratch, is the new car really t… more »
Magnets and Dynomometers
08/18/08 | by diandra | Categories: Tony Stewart, Horsepower, Joey Logano, Cheating, Dynos, Joe Gibbs Racing, Michigan
| Categories: Tony Stewart, Horsepower, Joey Logano, Cheating, Dynos, Joe Gibbs Racing, Michigan I have never seen Robin Pemberton looking so disgusted as he did during an interview replayed on NASCAR Now Monday evening. (Well, maybe not since Daytona 2007.) NASCAR did a chassis dyno test after the Michigan race on a number of NASCAR Nationwide cars… more »
