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Nice 21 Marussia How the tiny British based Russian owned #1 team is fighting for Toth place 26 |Ferrari Gearbox In 1989 Ferran inroduced a revolutionary ttansmission into Formula 1 30 McLaren Applied Sciences Taking Grand Prix technelegy into new spheres 37 The Consultant Mark Ortiz discusses weight distribution and turnin 41 Databytes Cosworth Electronics on how to take your cars temperature, ‘and what todo with the Information 45 Aerobytes Vee take a Formula 1 car from 2007 and puttin MIRA Full scale wind tunnel the results are rather interesting 48 Simulation How simulator technology i being developed to tick 2 hivers brain into thinking the mation ise) 58 Nissan VB ‘look at how the Japanese marque has adapted it GT1 racing engine for use inthe Australian VB Supercars series 63 Metallurgy The State ofthe art of all things metalle 71 Danny Nowlan 78 Industry news Formula € Formula 4, Hyundal WRC, Grand Am and ‘American Le Mans marion ‘84 Racecar people “Tim Sugden discusses his career as an engines! ‘88 Whatever happened to the Lola lads? ‘They went into administration, compary CEO Martin Birane explains why 93 nec Ertan nas anew composites faiity, we take 2 look 97 Naw Products Bump stop Subscribe to Racecar Engineering- find the best offers online leotard dtl) November 2012 «wow raecar-engnceing comll i, The one in the middle wins races ~ =F 2 hy) BRAKE PADS FERODO ome CING ieecieeaariies=3 STRAIGHT TALK - RICARDO DIVILA To turn or not to turn? 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One ofthe conversational participants suggests an idea hich on the face of it sounds Ltterlybliant and impossible to faut in any way like teaching a monkey to ride a Segway for ‘example, Those involved inthe conversation enthusiastically discuss details ofthe concent and eventually when the evening (as such discussions tend to take place after dark) comes to an end, everyone heads thelr separate ways, buzzing with thoughts and Ideas related this great new thing that they've discovered at the bottom ofa pint eas. ‘Then, in the morning they wake up and realise thatthe idea was frankly a bit stupi, and utterly unworkable. ‘Another location where such conversations are heard is around boardroom tables, where lots of enthusiastic people start to brainstorma new project, such as Formula €, FIAsnew all-electric racing series tor example. Now, whether you lke the idea of tlectrc cars or not, is clear that there isa demand for al-electric ‘motorsport in all sorts of markets, so the question reallyis how should professional motorsport tap into that demand? It's at tis point at one of the aforementioned types of conversation took place, when the organises of Formula € sat ‘own to thrash out the details of the new sees. Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine you could come up with a brand new World Championship from scratch, What cars would You use? What would they look like and were would you race? ‘The FIA iskeenly aware thatits missing out on the youth market, the internet- savvy, smartphone cartying. app installing, Facebook using kids of taday and hopes that buy four cars and sip them ferris wil engage tiem, allaound the wer. The ars They want the as tlk wl, themselves wie fa rom sound good andbe seen inall”| cheap ether. 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