Team Lotus to Build Wind Tunnel in 2 Years
30 Dec 2010, 08:19 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Although Team Lotus has recently announced that they will have a wind tunnel of their own soon, in order to help them with the development of their F1 racers, the team's technical officer Mike ...
Ferrari Announces New Era in Formula One
25 Nov 2010, 10:36 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Ferrari's technical director Aldo Costa gave the Italian tifosi something to hope for. And that would be a “new era” for the Prancing Horse, something that actually started happenin...
Corser, Haslam Take BMW S 1000 RR to Wind Tunnel Tests
17 Nov 2010, 10:52 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport is currently preparing for the 2011 FIM Superbike World Championship using the BMW wind tunnel at Munich. Riders Troy Corser and Leon Haslam have therefore taken the S ...
Scania to Build a Wind Tunnel at Its R&D Centre in Sweden
31 Aug 2010, 12:10 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania announced today it plans building a wind tunnel at its research and development centre in Södertälje, Sweden. The wind tunnel will be used for testin...
Renault F1 to Update Wind Tunnel
13 Aug 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Renault's good run in the 2010 Formula One championship – as compared to the pre-season expectations of the Enstone based team – will justify a new development programme set up by t...
Automotive Wind Tunnels - Making Aerodynamic Cars
8 Aug 2010, 13:23 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / For those of you that don’t already know this, wind tunnel testing were initially aimed at conducting aerodynamic research mostly involving aircrafts. The first enclosed wind tunnel for aerona...
GM Wind Tunnel Turns 30
4 Aug 2010, 14:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever wondered when did carmakers begun paying attention to the drag caused by the shape and size of the car? How did they come to the conclusion that a car's shape can affect its fuel consumpti...
Force India Confirms Legal Actions Against Lotus F1
2 Jun 2010, 08:55 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Force India Mercedes today confirmed, via an official statement, that they have proceeded to launching legal actions against Lotus F1 Team and their technical chief Mike Gascoyne. The Silverstone ba...
Katarina Witt Tests New BMW Environmental Centre
19 May 2010, 10:20 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / As the Olympic Ambassador of the German brand for the 2018 event, two-time Olympic figure skating champion Katarina Witt recently paid a visit to the BMW Group's Energy and Environmental Test C...
Audi Parters with DOSB and DSB, Supports German Athletes
1 Feb 2010, 13:16 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German carmaker Audi announced it became the official partner of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) and National Promoter of the German National Paralympic Committee (DSB). The four-ring...
Audi to Sponsor 2011 and 2013 World Ski Championships
25 Jan 2010, 11:28 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German carmaker Audi announced it will continue to be Presenting Sponsor of the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) in 2011, and in 2013 in Schladming (Austria). I...
How Formula One Mirrors Work
20 Jan 2010, 15:55 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / We all know that every single detail on a modern Formula One car has to do with aerodynamics nowadays. And that's the logical progression of the policy introduced by the International Automobil...
Force India/Lotus Espionage Scandal Looms in F1
4 Nov 2009, 11:59 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Max Mosley may not be the president of the FIA anymore, but that doesn't mean the scandals in Formula One will cease with immediate effect. After the spy-gate back in 2007 and the crash-gate ea...
Supermodel Hairdo in BMW Wind Tunnel, Video Included
30 Oct 2009, 10:10 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The association between a beautiful woman and a car has been used in commercial purposes for decades to promote... the car of course. Recently, BMW used the same trick but to illustrate the 22 years...
Ford Tests In-Car Sounds in VR
7 Oct 2009, 08:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American manufacturer Ford is making full use of the technical advancements in the field of cirtual reality, as it announced it is the first US-based carmaker to use the Virtual Vehicle Sound Simula...
First Chinese Wind Tunnel Sees Daylight
21 Sep 2009, 10:43 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Chinese auto sector grows bigger by the day and the recent investments made by global automakers in the country are the living proof. But China has just made another major step in becoming a mor...
Williams to Fight Wind Tunnel Restrictions
20 Feb 2009, 14:04 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Frank Williams is not at all happy with FIA's desire to ban aerodynamic testing to only one wind tunnel starting 2009 and has every intention to make himself heard within the Formula One Teams&...
All-American F1 Team to Be Based in North Carolina
9 Feb 2009, 10:26 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The first all-American Formula 1 team that is likely to make its debut in the series from as early as 2010 will be based in North Carolina. The news was reported by the Charlotte Observer and ThatsR...
F1 Teams Want Testing Ban Rule Changed
3 Feb 2009, 10:20 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Most F1 teams seem to have second thoughts when it comes to the in-season testing ban imposed by the International Automobile Federation for the 2009 Formula 1 series. While helping in terms of cost...