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Month: August 2008

Goodyear

Mailbag: Tire Codes, Bristol Waves and the Science of Cheating

2008-08-27 dr. diandra 6

Just when you think things can’t get any busier, they do. It’s the end of the fiscal year at my university, which means getting buried in a mound of paperwork. We’re doing three workshops this […]

Dynos

Magnets and Dynomometers

2008-08-18 dr. diandra 20

I have never seen Robin Pemberton looking so disgusted as he did during an interview replayed on NASCAR Now Monday evening. (Well, maybe not since Daytona 2007.) NASCAR did a chassis dyno test after the […]

Goodyear

Goodyear Knows what went Wrong at Indy

2008-08-12 dr. diandra 24

Goodyear has figured out (or at least thinks they have a good idea) what the problem was with the Indy tires. They confirmed that the tire compound was indeed the one they intended to use […]

Goodyear

Goodyear’s Tire Solution

2008-08-04 dr. diandra 9

There’s a wonderful gadget called wordle that analyzes text and picks out the words that are used with greatest frequency. So I had it analyze the blog and this is what it came up with. […]

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