McLaren vs. Ferrari: Stepneygate Details
Tom Martin
The June 2008 Issue of Wired (which may still be on newsstand) has a pretty complete article about last year's FIA-McLaren-Ferrari dustup over design secrets being passed from Ferrari to McLaren.
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tbmshark
Racecar Engineering's Dec 2007 issue also had good coverage of the technical apsects of "Stepneygate." For example, Ferrari found that they had the best tire performance when they filled their tires with and 50-50 blend of CO2 and HFC R404A. HFC R404A, as I'm sure you all know, is a mix of 52 per cent tetrafluoroethane, 44 per cent Pentafluoroethane and four per cent Trifluoroethane...
Steve
Wow. I need to check both of those out... Ebay for me!
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