NOVEMBER RACE TECH

ON THE COVER

F1 BIO BREAKTHROUGH: Progress toward renewable alternatives to traditional carbon fibre has been painfully slow – but as Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team showed in Baku, there is hope…

FIRST ‘GREEN HELL’, THEN WE TAKE LE MANS! Chris Pickering meets Nico Perrin, a visionary engineer with ambitions to take on – and dominate – the world’s classic circuits using novel hydrogen and electric technology

RALLYCROSS: END OF THE WORLD? Its stampede into electrification was ultimately responsible for the demise of the World Rallycross Championship. But is there still hope? Hal Ridge reports on anew twist in the story

SAFETY TECH: FORMULA E: Behind the scenes with the FIA as its safety experts hatched a plan to end a spate of hand injuries sustained by drivers in Formula E’s Gen3 era

SUSTAINABILITY CHAMPIONS: Bcomp’s Johann Wacht tells Chris Pickering about the Swiss company’s sustainability journey with its products such as AmpliTex

ALL OR NOTHING: KARL LUDVIGSEN: In our third extract from ‘Power Unleashed: Trailblazers Who Energised Engines…’, Karl Ludvigsen takes us inside Porsche’s high-stakes bid to tame turbocharging and unleash the full potential of its fearsome Can-Am 917s

AERO TECH: MAKING THE MOST OF DRS: How to get the most out of Drag Reduction Systems using Computational Fluid Dynamics. By Venkat Krisshna, an applications engineer at American mathematical modelling software specialist COMSOL