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Badger GP Gives You (Front) Wings

The first in a new series of "The Science of an F1 car" articles, explaining the ins and outs of F1 design. Starting with the front wings...

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Safety First: Crash Tests

Crash testing - what's it all about in Formula 1? Badger explains it all in this guide to F1 crash tests.

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One Step Too Far? - Why F1 Noses Are Out of Joint

The raft of rule changes for 2012 have produced cars that would look better on the opposite side of a beer mat - we look at why.

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Banned: Lotus, Ferrari and the Reactive Suspension Saga

Is there anything worse than spending time on a project only for it to be proven worthless? It happens all the time across the professions, but there must be nothing more expensive than having an F1 project written off by ...

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Rear Diffusers in 2011 - How they changed from February to November

How the rears of the cars developed from February - November in 2011

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Formula Student Teams using F1-spec Technology

Formula Student is essentially the student version of Formula 1 - a bit scruffier and a lot tighter on budgets. That said, there's much about it that is just like F1

Exhausted - Tech Focus on 2011 Car Design

When designing (or drawing) a car, a child would inevitably put the exhausts at the back of the car, just as pretty much every other car on the road has them - of course there's the odd posh motor with ...

Ceramic Coatings - the secret of Renault's fancy new exhausts

"Zircotec" is a term you're most likely unfamiliar with, but Badger's here to explain exactly what it's all about, but first here's why we're bothering - Formula One is a hugely technical sport where engineers are mad busy trying to ...

The Great Diffuser Confusion - Are the Brawns, Toyotas and Williams illegal?

[caption id="attachment_3063" align="alignright" width="151" caption="FIA check & approve BrawnGP"][/caption] As we have come to expect from Formula 1 - politics seem to be taking over the racing in the headlines and after the ...