Selection box - An instant curiosity - Featuring WEC stats, IndyCar racers, human vs machine and more
Published by Christine
This week, the UK has seen a significant amount of snowfall in various places around the country and that means you can suddenly see stark varieties in the types of driver there are out there. From those who tentatively make their way off driveways and along dual carriageways to those who put pedal to the metal and care little for the traction beneath. It's fascinating.
Professional drivers are probably not bothered by the snow, so let's leave it to them to do the driving. Instead, snuggle up beside a roaring fire with a cup of hot chocolate and peruse this selection of links from around the motorsport web.
2017 began with only one true rookie, not exactly making it a golden year for new racing talent coming into the spotlight of the top of the single-seater ladder. While 2016 ushered in Mercedes talents Esteban Ocon and Pascal Wehrlein as well as Jolyon Palmer, Rio Haryanto and gave Stoffel Vandoorne his debut outing, 2017 had only Lance Stroll to offer.
How do strategists work out which combination of tyres, pitstops and engine modes make for the fastest strategy? Let's look at the basics of putting a race strategy together.
I find it rather sad that nowadays, a private organisation such as Dare To Be Different is more inspiring than what the FIA and the sport wants to highlight. As amazing as the collective D2BD is, this should have been done by the FIA ages ago, hence the fact that today, women like Tatiana Calderón and Leena Gade carry both the role of FIA and D2BD ambassadors.
The 2017/2018 Formula E season kicked off last weekend in Hong Kong, and we downloaded Di Grassi’s vast knowledge bank to discover just what it feels like to pilot a 240bhp (in race trim), lightweight electric go-kart. Turns out, it’s actually a lot harder than the speed might suggest…
Pippa Mann says that she has been buoyed by the response she has received since speaking out against the FIA's appointment of Renault F1 development driver Carmen Jorda to its Women in Motorsport Commission.
While work is moving ahead on the second-generation car that will debut next year, discussions are already underway to define the structure for Formula E’s third-generation model, slated for 2021.
We challenged Nicki Shields to take on DevBot at the Hong Kong ePrix. Watch DevBot testing new software on the tricky Hong Kong street circuit racing Nicki Shields.
We're not quite done yet! In response to the recent "SHE Championship" news and the breaking news story of Carmen Jorda's election to the Women in Motorsport committee, we decided to have a Women in Motorsport special episode, talking about some of the history of women racing, up to the present day problems the sport has with participation, and offer some potential solutions to the problems at hand.
In 1997, a 16-year-old girl from Ohio competed in the Knoxville Nationals. The combination of her gender and her age made her an instant curiosity. Women had raced winged sprint cars – strange, powerful beasts that are notoriously difficult to control – at Knoxville Raceway in Iowa for 19 years before she arrived, but none had done it at such a young age.
With 50 FIA World Endurance Championship races complete, here’s a brief overview of some key statistics for the LMP classes.
Six-time Indy 500 starter Pippa Mann joins Marshall Pruett as guest host of the #WeekinIndyCar podcast to discuss the announcement of Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports partnering to field Jack Harvey, the intra-team swap of Marco Andretti and Alexander Rossi, the confirmation of Carlin Racing's two-car program for Max Chilton and Charlie Kimball, SPM formally abandoning its Indy 500 plans with Didier Calmels and its interest in hiring Le Mans-winning engineer Leena Gade, and the final test days of the year at Sebring that are under way.
