A qualifying run at Indianapolis is one of the most intense engineering projects in motorsport.Indianapolis Motor Speedway is hallowed ground to everyone involved in racing, but to engineers it is also one of the most idiosyncratic tracks that IndyCar visits. With its four distinct corners, extremely long straights, and season-high...

The IndyCar calendar offers what is probably the most diverse collection of tracks of any racing series in the world. This is usually taken to mean that over a season, IndyCar pays visits to the likes of speedways, short ovals, road courses, and street courses. However, the variability in surface...

Overlays are an excellent way to visualize what a driver is doing while they’re out on track. Sensors are outfitted on the car to record each of the driver’s primary inputs; channels tracking the angle of the steering wheel, the selected gear, the throttle percentage, and brake pressure are sent...

After discussing why teams will resort to fuel saving in the last column, the natural follow-up question is, how do teams go about doing this? While there are many strategic reasons that teams will turn to fuel saving during a race, in every scenario teams will try to save fuel...

ED's note: Welcome to the first installment of a new series of IndyCar technical deep-dives that we'll be running through the winter. Over the coming weeks we'll be shining the spotlight onto all sorts of topics related to making an IndyCar go fast, many of which are rarely discussed in...

In late 2017, I was 23 years old and sufficiently sick of searching for a job. In this day and age, applying for a job always follows a typical pattern: you fill out a form online and click submit, you get a generic email saying your application has been received...