On the day that he announced that he will be leaving Sauber to join “his” driver, Nico Hulkenberg, at Sahara Force India, leading F1 operations engineer, Tom McCullough, talks to Rob Wilson and Peter Windsor about the impact the new 2014 F1 engines will have on the drivers. There’s lots of chat about Nico, of course, and of how his arrival will be a huge boost for SFI – but we look, too, at the new regs in general: how will the greater torque of the engines affect the way tyres evolve – and what, in turn, will this mean in terms of the way the drivers use the steering wheel and pedals? Fuel-flow rates will also be an issue, as will the drivers’ ability to manage them
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Like all good things, the run of Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is coming to an end. While this is sad news for Mercedes enthusiasts, there is a silver lining: Mercedes is currently working on a new AMG sports car, and it’s rumored to rival Volkswagen’s Porsche 911 Turbo. Even better? It’s significantly cheaper than you’d expect.
The AMG sports car
Mercedes’ new sports car is still being developed under the codename “C190,” but here’s what we know. First, thanks to spy shots, the C190’s look is said to be similar to the SLS but is significantly shorter. In addition, the C190 will have … More
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The Porsche 959 is known as a road-going technological tour de force from the 1980s. It featured four-wheel drive, twin turbochargers, and a top speed nearing 200 miles per hour. And then in 1986, in won the Paris-Dakar Rally.
The 959 was initially developed by Porsche to take part in Group B racing, which was a set of standards devised for both track and rally racing. It allowed for huge amounts of horsepower and not very much relatively in terms of safety, so when it became primarily rally-focused and then banned altogether Porsche just kinda went “aw screw it” and just developed … More
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Sports cars and that “wind in your face” experience have gone hand-in-hand since the days when open-top MGs ruled the twisties.
Despite Chevrolet’s best efforts, however, we’ve always had a hard time properly classifying the Corvette as a genuine sports car. Offered only as a roadster initially, it lacked the handling precision necessary to properly compete with the zippy small cars GIs were experiencing in postwar Europe. Subsequent ‘Vettes emphasized straight-line performance up until the outgoing model. But even it came up a little short in some areas – primarily interior refinement.
Fast forward to today, however, and the Corvette has … Pictures and more
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