June RACE TECH

INDYCAR AERO TECH: Last year’s NTT IndyCar Series boasted the most on-track passes in seven seasons but a raft of new technical changes are intended to make the racing even better. Chris Pickering talks to Tino Belli, IndyCar’s director of aerodynamic development

BRAKING BREAKTHROUGHS: More than 125 years after Ferodo’s first experiments with composite friction materials, the company remains at the cutting edge of braking technology. By Chris Pickering

AN EMAIL FROM LEWIS HAMILTON…From fixing bikes to winning the Young Engineer of the Year accolade – Peter Innes finds out how an email from Lewis Hamilton inspired a kid from Peckham on a quest to democratise access to STEM opportunities

FORMULA 1 TECHNOLOGY THE ENGINEERING EXPLAINED: In this extract from his new book, Steve Rendle examines underfloor aerodynamics, one of F1’s biggest battleground