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Welcome all to a new series by yours truly, first came the Safety First series, and now I will teach you all on the ethics of Formula One. When we reach the end of this series, you should all have a thorough understanding of Formula One. Let’s begin with the first instalment, Aerodynamics.

Modern Formula One cars have as much in common with a jet fighter as they do with ordinary road cars. Nope, that isn’t a joke.

Aerodynamics have become vital to achieving meaningful success in the sport and teams spend hundreds of millions of pounds on research, development and analysis of aerodynamics each year.

The designer of the aerodynamic package has two concerns …  Details

BMX champion Liao Wu-hsiung began his love affair with extreme bicycling at the tender age of 8 — and he’s never looked back

Liao Wu-hsiung (廖武雄) won his first national bicycle motocross, or BMX, competition in 1983 — when he was in fifth grade. He went on to successfully defend the title twice until, at age 15, he broke his leg in a car accident. A year later he was back in top form and won the national BMX championship three more times. Since 1996 he has been training young athletes and his students regularly garner victories at extreme sports races both at home and abroad.

Liao recalls his start in extreme bicycling: “BMX came to Taiwan at the beginning of 1980. I got on my first bike in December of that year…  Details

Video Surfing – Red Bull Surfing Mentawais 2009 – Pires & De Souza – High performance camp at the wave paradise. A boat, 13 surfers, two coaches and a film crew, remote islands and world-class waves: the high performance surf camp Red Bull Surfing Mentawais 2009.

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