TASK 3 3.1: While designing a particular vehicle of a particular class, there are some atributes and protocols to be followed. Because the designing and the procedures change from car to car. For a Racing car, the design fetures are pretty much different from normal, civilian cars. Civilian cars and family saloons dont have much to prove on the speed factor. But racing cars have a lot to show themselves upto in the speed front. There are a lotta different chunks of the total package that are to be designed with precision engineering and innovation. Chassis: A GT3 car's racing chassis. The chassis is often regarded as the skeleton of the car. This skeleton is just not any skeleton. It should be able to handle a lotta stress when the car is experiencing enormous cornering G forces. These forces are brutal and the car would just fall apart if its not properly engineered. And moreover, just giving a heavy metal chassis is not going to suffice. The car should also be light. Heavy metals would by no doubt, make the car rigid as a bus. But a bus isnt something that we would call, sporty in any way. The cars which are taking part in serious competitions would have the weight criteria to be hardwired as much as possible. The use of elements like …show more content…
The use of manual was deemed too tedious and inert. At immense speeds, the use of a slick shift would be very tough and the drivers wont have that much time to react. Hence the use of more sophisticated and easier transmission systems have come into play. The paddle shift gearboxes are very easy to use. And with the combined strikeforce of a twin plate clutch gearbox, the gear changes are lightning fast. The use of electrohydraulics can be seen here. There is no clutch. Just a brake and a throttle pedal. The flappy paddles are located behing the steering wheel which make it easy for the driver to access it without much
design made the car very strong and durable that is one main reason you see many
A vast majority of our population find operating a manual transmission, or stick shift, to be extremely difficult. However, in actuality all it takes is some serious practice and devotion to make driving a stick shift like second nature. For successful driving, the same steps must be followed each time the car is driven.
Some say that automotive racing began when the second car was built. For over a hundred years, competition has driven innovation in the car industry, thus the industry maxim “Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.” NASCAR and drag racing contributed greatly to muscle cars’ success. Muscle cars were born from these competitions as factory made race cars. Because of this, the muscle car quickly moved from a low quantity specialty item to the image of the American automotive scene. Each brand had to have one and each one needed better performance and personality than the next. The Golden Age began in the 1960s with the introduction of more performance models such as the Chevy SS Impala and the Ford Galaxy Starliner (Auto Editors).
One of the major differences between the two is the type of engines they have. Most muscle cars have a V-8 or even a V-10 with a large displacement. These engines produce a large amount of horse power and create a lot of torque at the higher RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) range, but to fit these large engines, they need large cars to put them in. On the other hand, imports have a much smaller, inline 4 engine, and because it has a smaller engine, it can fit into a smaller car.
Formula 1 car is the highest level of car racing championship. The regulation on the formula 1 is extremely tight where a little mistake can make the car is not legal to race. The regulation is keep changing every year to make the formula 1 car is more safety year by year. Since 2012 the regulation make the formula 1 nose cone is little bit unusual with the step nose cone. This change of the nose cone make a lot of formula 1 team and fans complained that the car is in the bad looking. This year, FIA as the formula 1 championship promoter try to change the regulation of the formula 1 nose cone to make car looks better but in fact the formula 1 2014 nose cone is worse than 2012 and 2013 formula 1 car with step nose cone. According to Bentley (1998), the nose cone design of the formula 1 will affect the aerodynamic of the car which will affect the handling during the cornering and speed of the formula 1 car itself. Aerodynamic flow is all the matter for the form...
The most important thing that differentiates supercars from normal cars was that supercars were light and normal cars were heavy. My favorite supercar is the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento which weighs around 2,200 pounds. A normal car would be an Audi A5 which weighs around 3,500 pounds. The reason the Sesto Elemento weighs around 1,300 pounds lighter than the A5 is because the Lamborghini
Dragsters Jonathan l. Dragsters. The cars that go in a straight line and get tested for speed to finish the track by. And this is what I’m working on and telling you about today. But first why do people even drag race or dragsters to use in the first place? Well it gives us a test of what drag and aerodynamics is and tests it in these cars and in this sport. It also help with students learning about technology (drawing, CAD, specifications and tolerances), science (newton’s law of motion, forces, friction, inertia, mass, acceleration, and so forth) engineering (design, prototyping, analysis, production, improvement) and math
However motor sport is more than just racing around to a finish line, the goal of motorsport is to push the limits of the technology we already have to further benefit us. How is Formula E different from any other motor sport? Formula E exclusive races on streets. This means that all the cars racing are street legal, the cars race around large urban cities around the world such as London, Los Angeles, Bangkok, etc. Gas powered automobiles are one of the leading causes of pollution, this is evident in countries such as China or even the United States. According to the official Formula E website, they claim in the next 25 years contribute to the sale of 77 million electric cars, four billion barrels of oil saved, and 25 billion Euros in savings from health care. ("Introduction - Official FIA Formula E
Tires are the most important part of race or any car for that mater. (Physics of Racing) After all they are the only thing that is contact with the ground! Tires work by having a high coefficient of friction. Some slicks have a friction coefficient grater then 1! (Physics of Racing) Typical normal street tires have coefficient of about .5 to .6 . In physics we learned that friction was equal to mew times the normal force. Since race cars are typical much lighter then normal cars, they use tricks to increase the downward force on the tires. Some drag tires run really low pressure, other drag cars tune the car to lift the front wheels to put all the weight on the rear tires. Indy cars use a wing to generate down force, and ventures to suck the car to the ground. (How to Make Your Car Handle)
Stock car racing has evolved a great amount since 1920’s when racing first started. The cause of racing was because of the Prohibition. The 18th amendment banned the production and possession of alcohol. So people had to make their own liquor, called moonshine. In order to make money from liquor, part of the job was to deliver it to their customers, but with the law enforcements trying to obey the new law, Moonshiners had to make their runs at night. They also had to use vehicles that would blend in, and would not create too much attention, but those vehicles couldn’t out run the cops, so they decided to make some slight modifications to them. After moonshiners made these slight modifications, they were able to run 120 mph on a dirt road without using headlights. Soon after, Moonshiners started to race each other on the weekends.
Safety changes are not only changes within the racecar or to what the drivers wear, there have also been changes to the walls that surround the tracks. Many officials realized that there was an increase in high impact crashes into walls (Aumann). In the article, “SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, CHANGES DEFINE RACING ERAS”, Aumann states, “Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Tony George began looking for a solution”. There were many attempts to create a safer wall. The first attempt, “was designed by retired General Motors engineer John Pierce and placed on an interior wall near the entrance to pit road in 1998” (Aumann). This was put into use during the International Race of Champions when a driver struck the wall. the driver was not seriously injured,
Installed systems inside vehicles have become a process of differentiation to understand customers looking for cars with more than just the ability to transport people from one point to another. Introducing of information systems inside vehicles has enabled manufacturers to provide their customers with extra functionality, by means of improving the desirability of the the product towards satisfying customers and at the same time enabling new business style and models through the supplying of efficient services to customers. And this changes the existence of competition in the automobile industry
In order to have a fast and efficient car all these things I have discussed need to be taken into consideration. A fast car should be designed with aerodynamic surfaces for a balance of maximum production of downforce and minimum drag creating surfaces. It should have as small an engine as possible to reduce mass and reduce the necessary size of the frontal area, but a large enough engine to be able to produce enough horsepower to be able to create more force than the resistance the car faces to accelerate and enough to balance with those forces at high speeds. The tires should be wide enough for fast acceleration and good cornering but not so wide it creates large amounts of rolling resistance. Your overall best example of such a car would be formula one races or Indy cars because they have to have good handling, fast acceleration and reach and maintain high speeds.
The move toward a more aggressively styled and higher riding vehicles have caused unintended consequences and risks. The risks include decreased “drivability”, obstruction of vision, and concerns surrounding safety. Current trends in vehicle design focus on addressing these problems to achieve appealing designs with the best qualities of both cars and trucks, as seen in all the new designs from the Land Rover.
Even when cars capable of these speeds are put into the hands of world-class drivers such as Ferrari’s Michael Shumacher and McLaren’s Mika Hakkinen, mishaps are bound to occur. This is what makes this sport so exciting to watch. Crashes however, are not the only exciting events of the race. It is thrilling to watch a car out brake another in order to squeeze its way ahead, or to watch the cars bump tires in an effort to occupy the same piece of race track to be set up correctly for the turn ahead. Other points of interest are the pit stops and the strategies that the various teams use in order to make a fast pit stop.