This is done by adding ballast to increase a car's weight, thereby reducing its speed, and by imposing limits on the engine's maximum power output. To measure engine power, torque meters are used for ...

“In motor racing, ballast is added to the floor of the car [to even up] balance of performance. That’s where we added our ‘ballast’ – the battery is in the floor with a lower center of ...

Witt said that in the aftermath of the disaster the rules governing racing were tightened to ensure boats carried more ballast. Improvements were also made to the safety harnesses that tied ...

The bulb keel is a different riff on the fin type with an attachment for the ballast to keep the weight lower. You’d typically find them on racing boats that sail offshore. It balances the challenges ...

How tall or heavy a driver is can dictate how much ballast is placed in different ... at 1.81m but still represents a tall frame for a racing driver, with Charles Leclerc the other driver to ...

Thanks to unrestricted horsepower and no racing ballast slowing it down, the company predicts the road version to be even faster. However, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus might want to act quickly ...

***The 6 Hours of Fuji gets underway Sunday at 11 a.m. local time (Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT) with full coverage available on MAX ...

Besides the Toyota, the remaining Hypercars have all been given power increases of between 2kW and 4kW for Fuji. Peugeot has ...

Rescuers are racing against time to locate the missing ... "You steer this sub with an Xbox game controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes." Watch: Mike went to see the ...

[Narrator] This is the story of the scientists racing to understand the threat ... probably from the ballast from a ship or something, and so we're stuck with them. It's like Zebra mussels ...

In the market for a racing or cruising yacht? It’s been another bumper year for the boatbuilding industry… Sam Jefferson ...