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Photos: Forget paper - meet the printer that can print your car parts
Photo The closest we can get to that today are 3D printers: devices capable of creating solid, three-dimensional objects, from prosthetic limbs and miniature chess sets, to car and aeroplane parts. In Star Trek, the Starship... [27 Aug 2009]
Tech driving McLaren's hunt for F1 wins
News As the team was putting most of its resources into developing its car right up to the final race of 2008, it meant efforts towards the 2009 car were compromised. The emphasis will be to exploit the huge... [16 Apr 2009]
Photos: F1 tech races into the real world
Photo Here, McLaren Group chairman Ron Dennis speaks at the launch of the Fast Forward: 20 ways F1 is changing our world exhibition at London's Science Museum, as the team's 2006 car hangs above him. New for... [30 Mar 2009]
Red Bull Racing revs up computing grid
Case Study The Red Bull Racing Formula One team is using grid computing to help design and build the car it hopes can take on and beat Lewis Hamilton in 2009. As a result of the upheaval, teams are facing a greater need for... [24 Mar 2009]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo This is one of the team's race drivers, Mark Webber, testing the 2008 car at Jerez in Spain. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Red Bull Racing's F1 factory
Photo Red Bull Technology uses sophisticated computer aided design (CAD), wind-tunnel analysis and complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications to develop the car. Red Bull Racing race driver Mark Webber puts the... [10 Mar 2008]
Red Bull F1 racing up the grid
News The Red Bull Formula One (F1) team is using grid computing to boost development work for its 2008 racing car by getting the most out of its processing power. Using grid technology, workstations left idle... [07 Mar 2008]
McLaren in pole position with data
Case Study With each car producing 2GB of data per race from 125 sensors - which is often received in an unstructured way via telemetry - this kind of technology is vital to make sense of the information. McLaren Electronic Systems... [03 Mar 2008]
Managed Development Environment Delivers Best Formula One Car
White Paper Honda Racing F1 Team wanted to design and build a new Formula One car in the brief, five-month off-season. The team used NX software digital product development system and Teamcenter software digital... [15 Jan 2008]
Renault F1's tech race never stops
News As well as being involved with the design and building of the 2008 race car, the pair are also responsible for making big changes to the IT infrastructure to adjust to the new regulations. For the 2008 season, the teams... [22 Nov 2007]
How tech drives the World Rally Championship
Case Study For live time splits, the WRC uses satellites and GPS data points on each stage, allowing the information to be available about two seconds after each car has passed through. Each car produces around... [08 Nov 2007]
silicon.com competition winner meets Lewis Hamilton
News As well as his two laps in the SLR with Hamilton, Smith also had the chance to drive a modified car on a skid pan as well as a Caterham 7 sports cars. Lucky silicon.com reader Bryan Smith met up with Brit... [31 Jul 2007]
Supercomputer boost for AT&T Williams F1 team
News He added this will increase the speed of development and allow improvements on the car to be implemented in a quarter of the previous time. This allows the team to predict the effect of the smallest change in component... [20 Jul 2007]
F1 team gets up to speed with supercomputing
News The team has been using Albert 2, developed in association with Intel, since the end of last year to develop the aerodynamics for its 2007 car using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), a complex simulation process which... [27 Jun 2007]
Honda F1 revs up tech tools with IBM
News The Honda Formula One team is moving to a new car design and production management system as it looks to build an even faster car for the next racing season. The team has been keen to avoid disruption to... [05 Apr 2007]
