Features

Feature articles and content from the club's archives.

Chassis

THE EDITOR’S WHAT IF SLOT – LADDER FRAMES

12/11/2013

Preamble: When I was a lad, just beginning to muck about with car stuff, ladder frames were off the radar. The popular wisdom was that they were heavy, structurally inefficient…

Technical

Chassis-6

CHASSIS STIFFNESS AND TUNING – HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

12/08/2017

Once upon a time, when race car chassis were rudimentary things and suspensions were rock hard drivers were given a very hard time. This is what Mike Hawthorn had to…

WHO INVENTED THE MONOCOQUE?

WHO INVENTED THE MONOCOQUE?

16/05/2014

The last article in this series finished with the thought that twin tube ladder chassis’ logically lead to a monocoque. But that is not how it came about. Definitions vary…

Ferrari

THE EDITORS WHAT IF PAGE: THE INDIANAPOLIS FERRARI’s

10/05/2014

On the face of it this is a story about a disappointing trip to Indianapolis in 1952. But it also serves as an F1 chassis design progression discussion. That part…

Chassis

THE EDITOR’S WHAT IF SLOT – LADDER FRAMES

12/11/2013

Preamble: When I was a lad, just beginning to muck about with car stuff, ladder frames were off the radar. The popular wisdom was that they were heavy, structurally inefficient…