Archive for the ‘Car Progress’ Category

For anyone in England on April 8th 2010, you will know of the beautiful weather we had on this day, and how it seemed to categorically signal the end of winter, and the start of those glorious summer days which seem forever just around the corner. So, it was in this extremely buoyant and optimistic mood ...

Another few days have passed and yet more has happened in the world of Racing Green Endurance! On Wednesday 22nd we took the car back up to Peterborough to put the final touches to the car and to put the car through some testing on Radical's dynamometer. So, over the last few days ...

If there was ever a blog entry that I have wanted to write more than this one, I certainly can't think of it! At 1.10am 21st March, the SRZero drove under its own power for the very first time! However, soon after, we ran into problems with electromagnetic interference (EMI) and had to ...

With the car needing to be finished ASAP, we drafted in Andy and Clemens today to help speed up progress on the car. While they are both excellent engineers in their respective fields, they haven't been involved in the day-to-day engineering of the project so far. However, we all arrived nice and early ...

With only 3 weeks to go now until Autosport International (the largest motorsport exhibition in the world), the team has been busy preparing the car for exhibition. We will be displaying our car on the Radical stand alongside some of there very impressive vehicles including the SR8 which recently smashed the Nurburgring Nordschleife (see ...

Today a large shipment of control hardware arrived from National Instruments today. NI kindly sponsored a whole range of equipment including a CompactRio, touchscreen and modules for the CompactRio, and the team (especially Alec and Toby) are itching to play with them! This equipment is effectively the brain of the car, and will be programmed ...

From Friday 23rd October, RGE's engineers have been going up to Radical Sportscars to help assemble the "car parts" of the car i.e. all the suspension, steering column, brakes, bodywork etc. This is due to be finished at the end of this week, and then will then come down to London for final kitting out of ...

For people whom CAN sounds chinese: Cars have a lot of sensors: a speed sensor in each wheel, temperature sensors, pressure sensors, accelerator sensors, motor controllers, etc. To reduce all the low voltage signal wires that are connected to these sensors, car manufacturers use CAN (Controller Area Network).  CAN can be seen as an internet in ...

I'm please to announce that our chassis is well and truly under way and no longer just a CAD model! Last week Radical Sportscars started work on welding the modified SR8 chassis and have made great progress with all work ahead of schedule! Today Nik and myself took the chance to see the work in ...

Hi there, Great news...Radical Sportscars have upgraded us from an SR3 to an SR8 rolling chassis and bodywork! And if you hadn't heard already, the SR8 is the fastest track car in the world! (see http://www.radicalsportscars.com/news/international-news/2009/09/03/the-n-rburgring-story-part-one). This is quite amazing for us as it is a stronger chassis with more space in the rear for ...