The Mate’s Rear Wing: What Works and What’s Just Expensive Sticker (AeroNEC · 5) You know the car. Hatchback, lowered, and a rear wing the size of a picnic table bolted to the bootlid, tall enough to serve tea on. Top Gear built a whole comedy strand out of cars like it. And the question … Read more
Ground Effect: The Dirty Trick F1 Had to Ban (AeroNEC · 3) In a wind tunnel in the mid-1970s, a team from Lotus watched something that shouldn’t happen. The tunnel’s moving floor — the belt meant to simulate a road rushing past — peeled up off its rollers and stuck itself to the underside of … Read more
How to Glue a Car to the Ceiling: Downforce Explained (AeroNEC · 2) Remember the bit in Men in Black where Agent K flips the Crown Vic onto the roof of the Queens-Midtown tunnel and just keeps driving, upside down, lights flashing? Sci-fi nonsense, obviously. Except the physics underneath the gag is real, and a … Read more
Jim Hall: the Texan who understood the air while everyone else stared at the engine If you walk into the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas, you’ll find oil derricks, rock samples and a hall full of dinosaurs. You’ll also find, almost by accident, the most important collection of racing cars built in America. … Read more
Banned in 1978. Champion in 2022. The Fan Car Nobody Saw Coming. Under 1,000 kg. 1,000 horsepower. And a system that sucks the car to the tarmac before the motor knows it’s moving. This is what happens when a Concorde engineer forgets that something has been banned for 44 years. On 11 April 2025, a … Read more
