Porsche 919

Gravel trap: The cost of secrecy

Le Mans is never quite what you expect, from the Sunday morning antiques/junk market in Place du Jacobins to the beautiful old town, something...

Gavel Trap: F1 does Bargain Hunt?

Let's go Bargain Hunting! Yes! So starts almost every single episode of the seemingly endless and popular BBC antiques themed television show. If you...
Westworld

Westworld meets F1?

At the Special Interest Group on Computer GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) conference in 1991 Loren Carpenter, one of the co-founders of Pixar...
Cadillac DPi

Cottonballs: DPi’s Daytona dawn

There was a sense of trepidation in the lead up to the Daytona 24 hours. There were issues with teams learning about the Cosworth...
Cadillac DPi-V.R

How Cadillac tried to trick the motorsport world

Visual deception techniques in motor racing
Microprose GP2

Gravel Trap: Setup advice from a 1994 computer game

I dug out my copy of Geoff Crammond's Microprose GP2 computer game the other day and I was amazed by the level of detail...
ORECA 05

Gravel Trap: Time to re-think works teams at Le Mans

Audi's impending departure from LMP1 has raised a lot of questions about the future of sportscar racing and the World Endurance Championship in particular....
Renault F1

Gravel Trap: The motorsport industry has a big problem

Formula 1 and the wider motorsport community in Great Britain is heading towards a deepening skills shortage according to many in the industry. There...
Ricardo Divila

Devil in the details: Wisdom of Divila part 1

Ricardo Divila has been involved in motorsport engineering since the time that everyone used chariots. Over the years he has accumulated a great and...
EU

Gravel Trap: Motorsport in a post Brexit Britain

The impending departure of the UK from the EU will have a profound impact on motorsport