I got a call out of the blue in the office yesterday. A biomedical physicist/radiation oncologist from UC-Irvine who had just gone to his first NASCAR race at Auto Club Speedway had a question about my book, The Physics of NASCAR (which, by the way, you don’t have to be a physicist to read. In fact, it’s probably better if you’re not.) […]
Did Danica Patrick win the Daytona 500 pole because she has a weight advantage? […]
Since it’s ramping-up time for the new semester, a bit of recycling is in order. The Science of Speed is a video series the National Science Foundation made to explain some of the science of motorsports. One of the segments (which I wrote) is on Tire Pressures. […]
People worry that 200-mph laps at Michigan International Speedway could make cars airborne, as can happen at superspeedways. Should they worry? […]
Please see my post at Building Speed on the truth behind Sadler’s Pocono crash.
Sometimes, life isn’t content with just kicking you. It insists on running you over a couple of times and then spitting on you for good measure. Just in case you had an inkling of getting […]
The purpose of this post is not to make arguments for or against “diversity”. I will delete comments on that theme because we can have the ‘there is no problem/yes, there is/yes there is, but […]
OK, this is a minor one to start with, but one that I think could be pretty easily addressed. The Issue I’ve written two posts explaining how the drivers determine Pit Road speed (1 and […]
The Science of Speed video series is now up at www.science360.gov. We did a press conference at Texas Motor Speedway Friday April 3rd afternoon announcing the series. If you told me three years ago I’d […]
After getting in late from Columbus, I made the mistake of listening to the radio as I attempted to sleep. Listening to the comments about the Red Bull Racing penalties got me slightly riled. NASCAR […]
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