“Big Daddy” Don Garlits made a few burnouts, or test runs, of his new electric dragster, Swamp Rat 38, on Friday at his museum south of Ocala, FL
Starting a modern turbo hybrid Formula 1 engine is not excessively complicated but it requires a lot of people and to follow a very strict procedure.
Motorsport.com talked about starting a Formula 1 engine with Bob Bell, technical adviser at the Renault Sport F1 Team. Due to its extremely tight tolerances, a cold F1 engine cannot be started without any sort of preparation.
“Starting an engine is not that complicated. We must make sure that … More
Porsche has recaptured the production car lap record on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, with its 911 GT2 RS MR recently completing a lap of the 12.8-mile circuit in 6:40.30.
The time, set by Porsche test driver and VLN veteran Lars Kern on Oct. 25, was more than four seconds faster than the previous record, a 6:44.97 set by the Lamborghini Aventador SVJ earlier this year … More