The saying “Racing improves the breed” could apply to Infineon Technologies development of a high-speed data logger for Ferrari's 2005 Formula 1 race car. Racing tempers technology in a fast-paced, ...

We were turned on to this data logging system when Craig Paisley credited its use with a .18-second improvement in the Paisley Racing/TRD-sponsored Supra. The internally stock-engined Supra improved ...

Maserati's GT2 Race Car Will Be Your Best Friend Driving Historic BMW Race Cars Is a Flat-Out High Toyota's Prius Rally Car Gets Down and Dirty The Maspalomas Circuit is a lot of back and forth. The ...

Back in the day, electronics referred to transbrakes, delay boxes, and throttle stops. With all due respect to the older crowd, in an era when 3,500-pound door slammers are running 7-second e.t.’s on ...

Dempsey-Proton Racing has been stripped of all points scored in the current FIA World Endurance Championship 'super season' after it was found to be using a data logger that altered its recognised ...

A few months ago, Ars took a look at how cars are getting smarter, mainly in the aid of fuel efficiency and safety. All that technology stuffed under the hood creates data, and where there’s data, ...

The team created a Personal Data Acquisition Center where a car driver can measure his or her heart rate and any sort of movement of their body through an accelerometer. The final design consists of 3 ...

Motorsports data pioneer William C. Mitchell died on Jan. 17, 2014, at age 68 at his home in Mooresville, N.C. Mitchell was known to his friends as Bill. He graduated from CalTech in 1967 with a ...