Verstappen believes Mercedes is holding back a significant amount of pace ahead of the 2026 F1 season. According to him, the compression ratio makes a much bigger difference than Toto Wolff is suggest ...

Apart from the very curious, not many people ask why diesel engines, compared to gasoline, run higher compression ratios. The argument is reasonably straightforward and starts with fuel ...

There are other forms of racing where the cars are designed to be equal (e.g. Race of Champions). F1 and most other series are not that. As others pointed out, there is a long storied history of ...

There’s still another couple of months before the 2026 crop of F1 cars takes to the track for the first preseason test. It’s a year of big change for the sport, which is adopting new power unit rules ...

Formula 1’s new 2026 power units will debut at the Circuit de Catalunya in just over five weeks’ time, but questions over a grey area of the new regulations have already come to light. German outlet ...

The plane returned to Dulles and safely landed, officials said. One of the engines on a United Airlines flight taking off from Dulles International Airport in Virginia failed as it lifted off Saturday ...

The activist investor behind Engine No. 1's successful proxy fight against Exxon Mobil four years ago has built a stake in Siemens Energy (SMEGF) and is pushing the company to spin off its wind ...

Smaller, more powerful and fuel-efficient engines don’t seem to have great long term reliability. Engine recalls from major automakers such as GM, Toyota and Honda have cost billions of dollars. Moves ...

New generation narrowbody engines are unlikely to match the durability of their predecessors within the next five years, although operators will reap other advantages to ensure that demand for new ...

I used to be the guy handing out feathers and gleefully looking up. Hold on, I’m getting ahead of myself. In my early writing on artificial intelligence, beginning with my first “Cognitive Manifesto,” ...

United Flight 232 was supposed to be routine—until a violent explosion tore through the tail and the crew discovered they had lost every hydraulic system on the aircraft. With the controls dead and ...